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...

Marmite Crisis We have a crisis.  Love it or hate it, we have run out of Marmite!  The Quebecois clearly are not in the first camp as it is not available in any supermarket we have been in.  In fairness there isn't a large British contingent in the province, in fact finding any first language English speakers is rare.   I am not sure we can last until we get back to ' British'  Columbia and its specialist British food stores, actually thinking about it, it's often in the BC supermarkets. Montreal - Quebec We spent Sat 19th in Montreal city, it was not our most successful day out.  It was a culture shock after nearly two months of open roads, provincial parks and few people.   It didn't help that we missed a turning to the Vieux Port waterfront on the way in, and our satnav wanted to take us on a 10km diversion on the underground expressway.  Once we finally found it, it was hot, which wasn't great for Jack, and none of the restaurants an...