Joey decided to put the bikes back up on the car last night…it's a hassle. He needs to bring out the V-type-collapsible-extension ladder.
Some other "younger"
male campers saw his struggle & came over to help.
Everyone in Canada
has been SO friendly. I'm sorry I didn't get a photo of these fellas helping out.
We had heard from others that we might not find them so
friendly in QUEBEC because of the
language thing.
It's true that, really, a lot of people do NOT speak much
English. A little goes a long way though.
We drove Only 44 miles today.
Yes forty-four miles, not a typing error!
(NOW you know why we
are gone for such long "vacations")
We had several time consuming stops all enjoyable.
First: We headed NE on the south side of the St Lawrence river on
the highway #20 (in stead of the usual "back-country-roads) in order to get some
miles behind us quickly BUT we exited after only 15 miles or so because of having
read about a place called "Canard Goulu".
We stopped to see the place & buy some Foie Gras au Torchon & Rillettes
de Canard . http://www.canardgoulu.com/
Such a simple thing this chime. It's made made from tin, I think.
Today's utensils wouldn't sound so lovely.
These Next photos are a group of shots from INSIDE the store:
...And now Outside the store in their yard:
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A little later we stopped here:
"L'Atelier du Voiturier" in St Michel de Bellechasse, QC
( cough cough, now you see why it
takes so much time and effort in research to get-it-all-together?!? Just trying to SPELL the French names)
St Michel has a
little private museum of scale models of antique cars 1750-1960, carriages,
street scenes.
All the models are made by the couple that live right next
door to their museum.
We were lucky to find a side-of-the-road type place to park
with the trailer in this tiny village.
It turns out we were lucky again, in that as we got the trailer well-enough off the narrow road we saw at the house a man with the key opening the museum for 4 others.
So the six of us had a private tour. The four went with the husband in French and the wife spoke a little English so she was our guide.
So the six of us had a private tour. The four went with the husband in French and the wife spoke a little English so she was our guide.
All the models were based on photographs so one can relive
history via their models. This project has taken them over 14 years so far and they are still going at it.
"Scale models of antique cars (1750 to 1960). Horse-drawn summer and winter carriages, cars, trucks and farm equipment and machinery, as well as farm animals. Artisans make and display their work on site. The impressive collection brings together hundreds of original models and true collector's items. The Atelier du Voiturier is a museum where the visitor can literally relive many pages of history. Owners of the workshop greet and guide visitors."
"Scale models of antique cars (1750 to 1960). Horse-drawn summer and winter carriages, cars, trucks and farm equipment and machinery, as well as farm animals. Artisans make and display their work on site. The impressive collection brings together hundreds of original models and true collector's items. The Atelier du Voiturier is a museum where the visitor can literally relive many pages of history. Owners of the workshop greet and guide visitors."
Click on blue window below & hopefully the video will appear.
I worked long and hard onthis one....lots of fancy transitions.
Also, they have a small garden between their home & the museum building from which the wife gave us some of her vine-ripened tomatoes! They usually sell them in baskets in the museum but she put her finger to her lips as if to say shhhhhh , a secret from her husband as she handed them to us in a bag.
As we were going out the door she asked us if we wanted to
see her chicken.
YUP, of course we did! She was darling. So sweet looking as
you will see in the
TO BE CONTINUED....too much in this one already.
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