The weather turned suddenly COLD and windy about 9 pm. last night in Qubec. Then, when we got up this morning, the forecast was for a cool rainy day today and again tomorrow. Guess it would be okay for indoor activities, but we had planned to see Old Quebec City and do some outdoor touring of markets, etc.
So .... instead, we headed back on the road for Ottawa where the weather is warm today and "supposed" to be the same tomorrow!
We were ready to give Quebecers the benefit of the doubt about their anti-English attitude (we have both had unpleasant experiences in Quebec in the past). Truth is everyone we met in Quebec this trip was polite and did what they had to for us, but were very distant. We noticed that there was no effort made at friendliness. Even at the trailer park last night when we went for a walk, we tried to speak to a number of people but no one was interested in making the effort to "try" to talk to us and make us feel welcome. In contrast, when we went for a walk tonight, we stopped to talk to 4 or 5 couples. Again our 10 min. stroll turned into 45 min. I admit language can be an issue, but it's hard to miss the general feeling that we just weren't as welcome in Quebec. And it was also interesting that when we crossed the border into Ontario, we felt such relief that we did an immediate "high five", And stopped at the welcome centre to do cartwheels!! (can you picture Karl doing those? He told me to put that in)
We found a cute campsite in the woods and hope to visit a few tourist sites in Ottawa tomorrow....... unless it rains again! Otherwise, who knows where we'll be tommow??!! This gypsy thing is fun!
Poor Max is so tired from his day of travelling that he gave up and went to bed half an hour ago.
The campfire is beautiful.. it's a warm night. You can hear the crickets... the bug spray is actually working and.... you can hear the sound of jets overhead - we are apparently really close to the Ottawa airport. Oh well, you can't win them all!
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