Not quite Marco Polo: On the Road

Yesterday we walked around more of Montreal including an area called The Village which has pretty tree lined streets and row houses There seem to be a communal garden square in the centre of each block. Downtown Montreal has a labyrinthe of underground shopping malls including under the stone Anglican cathedral (lucky it is fairly small, but even so it weighed 8200 tons! Imagine the engineering involved).

This morning we found our way back to the Airport by public transport the metro and 2 buses. the main difficulty was hauling my case up the steps in the Metro, but I was soon rescued by two nice students.

We picked up a Red Ford Fusion and found our way through the spaghetti of motorways and got onto the Chemin du Roy, the old road to Quebec. It was almost empty (the Hertz man said tourists (American) were down 30%) It runs along the North Bank of the St Lawrence - a real proper river with large ships and through pretty old villages each with its own steepled church. The area was settled well over 300 years ago.

We found ourselves this motel which looks a bit like Woodside, but even here we have wireless although the lighting in the room is even more romantic than usual. I really need to carry light bulbs!!