{"id":2308,"date":"2013-09-04T15:06:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2021-04-15T04:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:36:15","slug":"tuesday-3rd-september-2013-it-managed-not-to-rain-too-much-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 3rd September 2013 – IT MANAGED NOT TO RAIN TOO MUCH TODAY."},"content":{"rendered":"

And that is always a blessing. After a restless night with high winds, trucks again starting up at 04:00 in the morning and diesel horns from locomotives at the level crossing about 2 miles away (you have no idea how far sound can travel in open countryside in the dead of night) I was back on the road (or, at least, the Chemin du Roy<\/em>) again.<\/p>\n

\"vestiges<\/a>This is the kind of thing that I’m looking for – you can see in front of this house near Portneuf the low wall and flattened surface (the Chemin du Roy<\/em> was a plank road made of cedar). The bits of gravel close to the camera and farther away behind give the game away a little and it’s nothing like as easy as this to find them normally.<\/p>\n

Still, it all keeps me out of mischief, I suppose and it’s quite interesting as I keep on encountering all kinds of unexpected things while I’m on my travels.<\/p>\n

\"pont<\/a>Another thing I’ve been looking for is the site of Fort Jacques Cartier. It’s the last place in Nouvelle France<\/em> that held out against the English.<\/p>\n

Strangely enough though, there’s no mention of it anywhere and although I had the co-ordinates (which you can’t reach) there’s not a sign or anything, quite surprising when you consider just how militant Qu\u00e9bec is. In fact if I hadn’t seen this bridge and its name, I would have been convinced that I had the co-ordinates totally wrong.<\/p>\n

Into the city of Qu\u00e9bec and past my beloved Tracel de Cap rouge<\/em> which I’ve told you about before<\/a>, and then into the city centre to take some photos that I missed when I was here last time – which you can see on the index page for the Tracel photos.<\/p>\n

\"interior<\/a>The Quebec Railway Station was high on my list of places to visit. The outside is magnificent, one of thse typical Nouvelle France<\/em> fairytale buildings, but the interior is superb as you can see. It’s kept all of its splendour which makes a change, seeing as how normally allof this kind of stuff is swept away in a wave of vandalism as we saw in other places in the swinging 60s.<\/p>\n

Strawberry Moose<\/a> made a few friends in Qu\u00e9bec too, but that quickly turned sour when someone called him a toutou<\/em>. Definitely a moment, that was. <\/coup><\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’m leaving the St Lawrence because I have other fish to fry, and so I’ll head for the hills and an early night. See you all soon.<\/p>\n

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