Just before us a huge cruise ship had arrived. We counted arround 400 balconies on each side, so it must have more than 3000 passengers on board. And they all went ashore as we arrived! So the old town was filled. The ship came from London via new York, Boston and going to St. John´s and then back to London. 
We strolled through Quebec, a Unesco World Heritage town. Apparently is the most french like town in North America and indeed, the food is nice, lots of coffeeshops, musicians playing in the streets and painters selling pictures, one art gallery after the other, a bit like Paris. But the most interesting place is the Chateau Frontenac, a huge luxury hotel overlooking the river and town. It had very famous guests here, for example Richard Nixon spent some time here to recover from Watergate or Alfred Hitchcock who even filmed there. Of course we went inside, but with our biker outfit we did not really fit into the noble surrounding.
A bit too late we left Quebec and drove along le Chemin des Roi direction west. All of a sudden it was sunset time and we did not have a place to sleep yet. Our map showed a hotel close, but it was closed and up for sale. A a few kilometers further a B&B, but nobody home. By then it was almost dark which is rather bad to drive because of all the holes in the road. Next on our map was an auberge, which looked nice and warm, had a wonderful cosy restaurant, but all rooms sold! But they helped us and called to the next B&B. There we were welcome, what a relief. Only 7 more kilometers to go. We decided to have a nice diner (it really was outstanding) and after that we arrived at 10 pm in our B&B.
What a place! In the living room the hosts and 8 cheerful French enjoying a good meal, we were welcomed like old friends. Laughing our landlady tolds us, that we were to sleep in her office on a inflatable bed, it was her emergency setup for stranded bikers like us, all her normal rooms had been taken by the French.
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