22 On to New Brunswick

Canada
Québec & New Brunswick
Nova Scotia & Newfoundland
Québec & Ontario
Manitoba to the Pacific

1 Arriving in Montréal
2 Montréal
3 Olympic Village
4 Looking for a motorhome
5 To the Eastern Townships
6 Eastern Townships
7 On to Magog
8 North Hatley via USA
9 Back to Magog
10 Back to Montreal
11 The Roadtrek 170P
12 North to Beaumont
13 La Grosse Ile
14 On to Trois Pistoles
15 Still at Trois Pistoles
16 Cap Chat
17 Windmills and mooses
18 Mont Jacques Cartier
19 Mont Louis
20 Slow start to Percé
21 Percé
22 On to New Brunswick
23 Caraquet
24 Acadian Historic Village
25 South to Shediac
26 Moncton
27 Catch up in Moncton
28 On to Fundy
29 Alma, Fundy Nat Park
30 Fundy National Park
31 On to Fredericton

Canada

Percé, Québec, to Pointe Verte, New Brunswick

Tuesday 23 August 2005 (day 93)

Today marks three calendar months away from home. In some ways it feels much longer, in others as if we have only been away a short while. The most frustrating thing at the moment is the lack of internet access. We are way behind in keeping up to date with emails and our website.

New/Nouveau Brunswick

We woke late today to find it was still raining. We packed up quickly and headed down to town for our 10:00 whale watching tour only to find it had been cancelled. The wind us up and even though we would be quite happy to brave the seas the boat is not up to it! Slightly begrudgingly they gave us a refund - not happy because they do expect the 1:0 trip to go ahead but by that time we want to be pushing on. Quebec is a huge proving and the Gaspesie peninsula where we have been for the past few days is really just a small part. We had expected to spend one more night here but in fact ended up heading down into New Brunswick by the end of the day.

The drive from Percé was uneventful. The scenery on the south side of Gaspesie is less spectacular than the north and the kilometres clicked away. Chandler, the next big town came and went, as did Bonaventura and New Richmond. We had expected them to be larger than they were and I had mentally planned that we would be spending a night in one or the other of them, but not so.

We followed the 132 to Point a la Croix where we crossed over the water and into Campbellton, New Brunswick. At the Tourist Information office we were given a stack of leaflets and brochures plus a whistle stop tour of the main sights to go and see - a definite case of information overload that will require time to assimilate. Crossing into New Brunswick we have also changed time zone so we are now only four hours behind the UK.

Campbellton

It has been a long day driving and I for one just wanted to find a nearby campsite so we could stop moving. I got badly attacked by bugs on Sunday and have big bites around my ear and on my head that hurt lots and its making me feel quite woosy. Tourist Information suggested a campsite at Dalhousie about fifteen minutes away. It was not great and the road in front was being re-surfaced. Not wanting a noisy early start we decided to push on.

We followed the Acadian Coastal Tour down and through to Pointe Verte passing very small villages along the way. Somewhere today we passed a big sign in a field proclaiming "get high on milk, our cows eat grass". It made me chuckle especially as it had come not far after a road sign warning about ducks crossing the road.

The campsite we had chosen, Cedar Cove Camping, had pretty small sites and the ones down by the bay were mainly filled with what looked like permanently parked trailers. People here have wooden patios, garden furniture and big gas powered barbecues set up permanently. Some even come armed with a garden shed! One trailer had its own version of Blackpool illuminations (sorry no picture to prove it) with not just lights all around their patio but lit up garden ornaments to. It was a bit like the houses you see at Christmas that have gone over the top with external decorations and lights to raise money for charity.

Desperately needing clean clothes, we used the on site laundry, taking a risk that the cool setting on the dryers matched the definition of Rohan cool. If not most of our clothes have probably shrunk. Stef had cooked dinner, still managing to use pretty much everything in our small kitchen. Earlier in the day we had bought Sky Captain the World of Tomorrow on DVD and settled in to watch it. As expected, I fell asleep half way through - just like home!

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