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| Sunset on the Saint Lawrence river |
Not the rain woke us up, it were the garbage collectors with their loud truck when they loaded the garbage bins early this morning, unfortunately just below our window. The weather had changed, the temperature did drop more than 10 degrees compared to yesterday. We were well prepared, dressed in all our waterproofs and left the cosy hotel. Franks bike got fixed in a shop where they also sell all sorts of hunting gear, rifles, very mean looking crossbows and Swiss army knifes (8 $ the one with 24 tools, of course made in China). So when the mechanic had fixed the pedale (although not the right way) we did not argue but paid! (Frank fixed it outside the shop)
After 20 km we passed a cheesefactory and could not resist to stop and sample some cheese. Did taste ok, cheddar like cheese. After that stop it needed more than a bit of strong will to sit back on the bike but we did it. For another 2 kilometers, then we crossed a organic bakery. Again we were glad to stop and smell the taste of nice warm bakery. We sampled a whole bread, which tasted, looked and felt like a real bread. The bakery is very known in the area, from our point of view a bit surprising, neither the selection nor the bread were outstanding. But it shows that some food culture has been lost here, how little old traditional ways of food making or other craftmansship are still known.
After 20 km we passed a cheesefactory and could not resist to stop and sample some cheese. Did taste ok, cheddar like cheese. After that stop it needed more than a bit of strong will to sit back on the bike but we did it. For another 2 kilometers, then we crossed a organic bakery. Again we were glad to stop and smell the taste of nice warm bakery. We sampled a whole bread, which tasted, looked and felt like a real bread. The bakery is very known in the area, from our point of view a bit surprising, neither the selection nor the bread were outstanding. But it shows that some food culture has been lost here, how little old traditional ways of food making or other craftmansship are still known.
Drenched with rain we continued only to come across a nice motel right on the river 2 km further down the road. There we decided to stay, make our laundry and wait for tomorrow, because the weatherforcast for the coming days is very good again. The owner, an elderly woman felt really pity for us, we must have looked quite cold. She even offered to make our laundry and brought it back to our room dry and folded!  |
| Dinner with a view! |
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