Restday! Only a short ride to get out of town into the picturesque town of Kamouraska. There we found our first lovely motel, with a room and terrase overlocking the Saint Lawrence River. Here it is arround 30 kilometers wide, its salty, because it mixes with the Atlantic. This area is famous for whale watching, so I think it is more sea than River out here.
Our room had a little kitchen, so we did cook: Seeweedsalad, Seegrass-risotto and local hadock fish. The seedweeds we had bought from a lady who collects all sorts of seeweeds along the shore and sells it. A bit unusuall to lock at but all tasted very good, even a bit salty.
We realized also, we are now in Quebec! Firmly French speaking and clearly different laws. For example here you get wine and liqour in normal stores, while in the provinces before, those alcoholic beverages had to be bought in special shops. And surprisingly, a lot of people we met did not speak good English at all. And their French sounds very strange at first, not like theEuropean French.
Quebec is a huge province, 36 times the size of Switzerland or 4 times the size of Germany. The population is just over 8 million people, it looks like a very empty place. But it has a lot of forest, water and as some people here hope, even oil.
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