With the route planned and the latest weather information, we started the journey from Montreal to Quebec City. The capital was finally waiting! After a short farewell (some people you close even after a very short time in the heart!) and with the sun behind us, we finally went!
Everything loaded ready! Let's go!
After seemingly endless way out of Montreal, where we experienced the first full braking (Attention - there is no or not always a blink or yellow sign before the traffic light turns red!) and we were definitely of the opinion that on roads with speed limits below max. 50 km/h one finds in any case at almost every intersection only these strange stop signs. The rule here is: whoever got there first, gets to drive first! Even if there are vehicles on all sides at the same time! - But: it works!
After the harbor area, the settlement and industrial areas the environment changed again abruptly. One is in the middle of the agricultural area! In our drive video this becomes again more clear - here the large arable land is to be seen well!
Our route meandered along next to a river and you noticed for the first time the great expanse here in Canada. Endless fields, where you can not even see the other end. Also the machines and agricultural houses like silos have completely different dimensions.
Here we encountered after the traffic hustle and bustle in Montreal for the first time also something new: the loneliness on the roads.
Partly we were really completely alone on the roads, which are sometimes really funny built in the middle of nowhere. For example, we were on a country road (by our standards) and suddenly it led through the middle of a swamp. On the left and on the right you could see the water right next to the bank (no guard rails or similar here), small reed islands and then a huge number of dark geese. A picture you really don't expect! Unfortunately, we could not stop just at this point, because we had traffic behind us here for the first time in a while!
Despite the "warm" 6 degrees while riding - it was always a really sunny day - we also saw a few other bikers. However, all of them were rather with Harley-Davidson style bikes. Munin and Trinianne were the only adventure bikes far and wide.
In a village near Trois-Riviere we had to stop for gas. And there a very unexpected situation was waiting for us at that time. First of all: it is still common in Canada that there are gas station attendants and that they don't give the tap out of their hands and that they alone fill the tank.
And secondly: there are areas here where no English is spoken or can be spoken. We had to realize that although the province of Quebec is basically bilingual, there are also purely French areas. Somehow our French, learned ages ago, together with our gestures was enough and we got a full tank of gas. But at least you could pay with credit card there!
Then, when we got hungry, we discovered by chance a nice rest area in the small town of Shawinigan. It was a rest area where - oh wonder - a lot of artistic sculptures (partly bizarre boats) were set up. After looking around carefully, we discovered a sign: Amphiteatre Quebecor. We parked next to really cute little houses in a mini-forest, where you would have expected a fairy tale character at any time. Right after we dismounted, we also had a nice encounter. A cute chipmunk just a few meters away from us, scampering back and forth, digging up nuts and disappearing back into its burrow. We were so fascinated that we even forgot that we could have taken a picture of it! It was just too cute!
The park behind our bikes was still partially covered with snow. Already from driving we had seen again and again ice chunks at the river. From this rest area, however, we could only really see how big these ice chunks really were and how fast they moved along the water.
When it finally got colder, we had to break away from the beautiful surroundings to reach our destination in Quebec City with the bikes still with daylight.
After some somewhat strenuous detours and detours over various highway routes to the capital, because our Navi no longer found the GPS signal (he was apparently also too cold) and these roads were just so much larger and more confusing than we are used to, but we still found good to our accommodation. Our host was wide-eyed and we were definitely the attraction of the entire street.
Since our stay in Quebec was planned for a few days to be able to look at the city, it was: luggage down and then go to sleep soon times!
„Bon soir Quebec!“
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