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Now that I’m back in bass-playing mood again, I can’t do with 7 weeks deprivation while I’m in North America so I’ve been scouring the second-hand and junk shops in a desultory fashion while I’ve been wandering around in Montreal.<\/p>\n

\"squier<\/a>And this is what I discovered. It’s a Squier Jaguar bass guitar – a short-scale model (which means that you can play it in a confined space like a Dodge Grand Caravan). <\/p>\n

Made by Fender (ptah!) so they say, the world’s leading manufacturer of bass guitars, but that’s only so that people can say that they own a Fender, it’s cheap and basic. Probably about $250 worth of guitar.<\/p>\n

But it’s surprisingly easy to play and has a very smooth action, something that took me by surprise, and so I had a good session with it in this pawn shop in the rue Queen Mary. $169 they wanted for it, but after a long and complicated negotiation that went on for a couple of days, we agreed on $100 with the case thrown in so I’m quite satisfied with that.
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\"dodge<\/a>Talking of Dodge Grand Caravans, this is this year’s beast. 4 weeks old and with 3200 kms on the clock. The fools. It’ll have a little bit more than that on the clock when it comes back.<\/p>\n

It’s so new that it still has this lovely new-car smell. But I wonder what smell it ill have after I’ve been sleeping in it for 7 weeks.<\/p>\n

I’m back on the road now, and this was a photo taken at my lunch stop, the Parc St Laurent at Repentigny.
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\"msc<\/a>It’s not taken me long to find a ferry though, has it?<\/p>\n

This is the crossing between St Ignace and Sorel-Tracy and the passage is delayed while the huge container ship MSC Maria-Laura comes sailing past. She’s an old Panama-registered ship of 42500 tonnes, dating from 1988 and looks every day of her age, and is on her way to Montreal via a whole series of North American ports.
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\"alcyone<\/a>In fact it was my lucky day for ships at St Ignace – there must have been half a dozen streaming in a line up the St Lawrence.<\/p>\n

This is the Alcyone, built in 2002 and wearing the colours of the Canadian Steamship Lines but now Greek-owned. She’s come upriver on her way in from Chile via the Panama Canal. She’s a bulk carrier of 50,000 tonnes.
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\"campsite<\/a>So now I’m at my camp site. It’s the Parc Bellerive on the River Richelieu near St Ours. This is where I’ll be staying the night. And quite a pleasant night it is too.<\/p>\n

It’s a little noisy here fortunately, as it is on most camp sites, but I’m going to have another early night and they can all do as they like.
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Now that I’m back in bass-playing mood again, I can’t do with 7 weeks deprivation while I’m in North America so I’ve been scouring the second-hand and junk shops in a desultory fashion while I’ve been wandering around in Montreal. And this is what I discovered. It’s a Squier Jaguar bass guitar – a short-scale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,4507,1321,2752,1744,1745,1756,1338,2751],"tags":[2757,1624,2755,2560,1331,2756,2754,1359,5582,5583,1757,2753,5584,2333,5758],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-eric-hall-2","category-montreal","category-repentigny-2","category-richelieu-valley","category-sorel","category-st-ignace","category-st-lawrence-river","category-st-ours","tag-alcyone","tag-canada-2","tag-dodge-grand-caravan","tag-eric-hall","tag-montreal-2","tag-msc-maria-laura","tag-parc-bellerive","tag-repentigny","tag-richelieu-valley","tag-sorel","tag-sorel-st-ignace-ferry","tag-squier-jaguar-bass-guitar","tag-st-ignace","tag-st-lawrence-river-2","tag-st-ours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}