Expedition Canada

Cold War Ottawa Deep underground -  Diefenbunker After leaving NB we had two one night stays in Quebec.  The first at Rivière du Loop, east of Quebec City, and another on the outskirts of Montréal.   Rivière du Loop The first had lovely views over a bay on the St Lawrence River and the second, a KOA campground had washrooms befitting a five star hotel.  Thursday was the beginning of a three-day stay, close to Ottawa at Thompson's Black Rock Campground, close to Carleton Place where some good Coast friends have their main home.   Thompson's is a large farm and producer of Maple Syrup. A walk through their woodland trails is like navigating a spiders web of small, medium and large sap-gathering lines that flow from the taps in ever-increasing size to storage tanks that hold the raw sap in the Spring before it is boiled down to produce the prized syrup.    The campsite was in a woodland setting on the side of a lake.  It was a bit of a challenge...

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...