Expedition Canada

French Fix Street art - and it wasn't raining! This last week Ros has been with us in Quebec and it's been great!  It has meant reprising some of the places we have already been to, but also an opportunity to explore old Town Quebec.  It is a most beautiful part of the city and after several years of not visiting France, it was a good French fix.   The citadel Ros flew in from Vancouver with Air Canada and enjoyed two flights and a seven and a half hours of delays, missing the connecting flight due to tech problems and medical emergencies (on both aircraft).  Still, she got a $15 food voucher at Toronto during the wait.  A tired and not very happy bunny arriving at her airport hotel at 0130. We missed an evening with Ros because of all this. Monday August 4th, Ros and Fred explored the old town while I took Jack for a trail walk and got some errands done.  The following day, Ros was my tour guide, we walked some 8k climbing around 150m, up to the Citad...

Bonjour Québec Bay of Quinte sunset - our last stop in Ontario Nous sommes maintenant en Québec -  le Français-parlant centre du Canada.   And it is very obvious.  Unlike other provinces, the signs are in French only, not French and English.  Some of the drivers think they are in Paris, so yes, very French. I started writing this blog from Algonquin Provincial Park (PP)  Ontario , an area we last visited in 2000 when we came for a family holiday from the UK.   On that trip we planned a week in a 'cottage' on Lake Vernon in Huntsville, before driving to Vancouver for the second week.  That journey had we done it, has just taken us a leisurely six weeks and 7300km. It wasn't a couple of days drive.   In the end we used Huntsville as a base and explored Muskoka and the Algonquin PP when we saw our first ever moose, in fact several of them in a herd; if that is the right collective noun.  The 'cottage' was a six bedroom house on th...