Day 12: Charlottetown to Quebec City
bj
The drive today was long and grueling! Up and down, around mountains, through fog, and rain, and more fog and more rain, but we made it! Checked into our B&B about 10 minutes from the old part of QC and found a restaurant that we had dinner at 34 years ago. I was still full from our pizza road-stop lunch so I just had soup and salad. Dad had baked salmon in filo pastry .. and finished the dinner off with 1/4 (yes, girls.. one quarter) of a pie. Not just any pie. Maple sugar pie. We had had it the last time we were here, dad has never forgotten it... it was the first thing he looked at/for on the menu! He ate the whole thing (except I had 3 little bites)... 1/4 of a pie... yup!
Tomorrow we will meander down to the old part of QC and check out all the little stores
Mike
What a rotten day to drive for 9 hrs. Stopped around 3:00 pm for lunch in Edmonston NB at a local Boston Pizza. Wrong decision, to have some crappy fast food for a very late lunch. I let Mom drive for the next 3 hrs because after 6 hrs behind the wheel was enough for me. Found the B & B " Aux deux Lions " on Blvd Rene Levesque and would not have been able to find it without the GPS system as it's located about 10 minutes walk away from the Old Town.
Really small bathroom with only a small corner sink. Had to slept the bags to the second floor and after a quick clean up went to explore for dinner. Found out the city was getting ready for an International Bike race that starts this Friday so they were setting up the grandstands and lights and road blockades as the race route goes right through the old part of the city. After hiking for about 30 minutes we found the "aux Anciens Canadiens " restaurant. Exactly the same place we had eaten over 34 yrs ago. Got served by the daughter of the current owner, who had bought the restaurant from her grandparents. She was blown away when we told her we had been there about 34 yrs ago for a dinner.
Big win when we got to have the " maple syrup pie " once again for dessert. It was just as I had remembered it to be. A big sugar overload that just melted in your mouth. Yummy, yummy, yummy!!!!!!!!!
The drive today was long and grueling! Up and down, around mountains, through fog, and rain, and more fog and more rain, but we made it! Checked into our B&B about 10 minutes from the old part of QC and found a restaurant that we had dinner at 34 years ago. I was still full from our pizza road-stop lunch so I just had soup and salad. Dad had baked salmon in filo pastry .. and finished the dinner off with 1/4 (yes, girls.. one quarter) of a pie. Not just any pie. Maple sugar pie. We had had it the last time we were here, dad has never forgotten it... it was the first thing he looked at/for on the menu! He ate the whole thing (except I had 3 little bites)... 1/4 of a pie... yup!
Tomorrow we will meander down to the old part of QC and check out all the little stores
Mike
What a rotten day to drive for 9 hrs. Stopped around 3:00 pm for lunch in Edmonston NB at a local Boston Pizza. Wrong decision, to have some crappy fast food for a very late lunch. I let Mom drive for the next 3 hrs because after 6 hrs behind the wheel was enough for me. Found the B & B " Aux deux Lions " on Blvd Rene Levesque and would not have been able to find it without the GPS system as it's located about 10 minutes walk away from the Old Town.
Really small bathroom with only a small corner sink. Had to slept the bags to the second floor and after a quick clean up went to explore for dinner. Found out the city was getting ready for an International Bike race that starts this Friday so they were setting up the grandstands and lights and road blockades as the race route goes right through the old part of the city. After hiking for about 30 minutes we found the "aux Anciens Canadiens " restaurant. Exactly the same place we had eaten over 34 yrs ago. Got served by the daughter of the current owner, who had bought the restaurant from her grandparents. She was blown away when we told her we had been there about 34 yrs ago for a dinner.
Big win when we got to have the " maple syrup pie " once again for dessert. It was just as I had remembered it to be. A big sugar overload that just melted in your mouth. Yummy, yummy, yummy!!!!!!!!!
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