27 Catch up in Moncton

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

Moncton, New Brunswick

Sunday 28 to Tuesday 30 August 2005 (days 98-100)

With access to a high speed internet connection, and not knowing when we would next get one, I persuaded Stef that we should stay put until we had everything up to date. He grudgingly agreed, his itchy feet ever pulling him forwards and onwards. Most of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday was spent typing up diaries, sorting photos, loading them on the site and catching up on emails. We hope you are enjoying the site and following us around.

We did get out and about to see a bit of Moncton too. It is a small town, the downtown area is compact with most of the shops seeming to be in out of town malls. Pretty much all of the buildings seem to be modern and there is not a bih feeling of history about the place.

On Monday we went to down to the river to watch the tidal bore - a surge of water coming upstream against the downstream flow of the river. You could just make out the wave. It was only a couple of centimetres high but apparently used to be much bigger. We got a bit bored waiting for the bore, it was about forty minutes later than expected, and I do not think I would hang around again to see it.

McLobster lunch, we are not impressed!

We also found Moncton's one and only Indian restaurant. It was our first curry in three months and while Stef enjoyed his I was not too impressed with mine, although it was better than a McLobster (we had to try one!). based on Main Street, it was in the middle of a small areas full of bars and restaurants, most with outside terraces. It would be a great place to while away a summers evening.

Talking of bars reminds me of how difficult it is to buy alcohol here. In the UK we are used to being able to go into the local supermarket and simply adding it in to the weekly shop. In Quebec you could do that but not here, or from the sounds of it in the rest of Canada. Here you have no option but to go to a state run liquor store. Each bottle you buy gets wrapped in a brown paper bag, so no one can see what is inside, and is then put into a plastic carry out bag. The bags have big THIS IS ALCOHOL type messages on them making you feel like you are an out and out alcoholic! I questioned, you also have to be able to prove that you are over 25 before you can buy!

The other thing that has made me chuckle is how lazy people here are. We were an oddity in Mont Louis for actually walking around the bay. On this campsite we are probably about forty metres away from the toilet/shower block. A woman on the pitch next to us yesterday got in her car and drove to go to the loo!

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