Friday, June 23, 2017

Friday 23rd June – On the road to Quebec



It was raining heavily in the morning, I woke up to catch up on some admin before a 3-hour drive to a campsite near Quebec, doing a Walmart shop half way.

Continuing the French theme, we arrived at Camping La Relache at 4pm.  Our only option whilst booking in was to try my broken French with the lady in the office and then again with our neighbours who barely spoke a word of English.

This weekend is a huge celebration in Quebec as June 24th is Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day.  The 23rd and 24th are known here as the National Holiday (la fete nationale) which explains why the roads were extra busy today! It is a Festival of French Canadian culture not just celebrated in Quebec but also other Canadian Provinces and the United States.   Our plan is to soak up the atmosphere in Quebec City tomorrow but our neighbours explained that there was live music and fireworks to celebrate the eve of the festival there tonight and tried to persuade us that tonight was THE night to head into town.
We set up and it appeared that the party would also be starting early on the campsite.  They set out tables and chairs and speakers started blaring a mix of what I can best describe as Euro-cheese and 80s-sounding French pop. I heard the Macarena at one point.  It was that bad.  This nearly motivated us to go out tonight but we both had things to catch up with – me the blog and Simon his Spanish learning, though at the moment he could really do with some emergency French lessons!

We stuck to our plan to head into Quebec tomorrow and enjoyed another portion of our favourite Canadian cuisine - Poutine & chicken for dinner.

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