{"id":583,"date":"2015-06-18T18:56:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T22:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/?p=583"},"modified":"2018-08-31T01:21:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:21:07","slug":"583","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/2015\/06\/18\/583\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 43 – Berthier-sur-mer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 43 – Berthier-sur-mer, Quebec (Thursday, June 18, 2015)<\/p>\n

I took advantage of the continental breakfast at the motel (Motel Marquis) where I was served home made swiss bread. I struggled to communicate with the proprietor and his wife. It turned out that they were from a french area of Switzerland, were taught German as the second language, and had no impetus to learn English fluently.\u00a0 \u00a0I spite of that they were very friendly and hospitable.\u00a0 They looked after their motel with care and attention and as a result their quality ratings were quite high.<\/p>\n

The hosts also pointed out that route I was taking along highway 138 was Chemin de Roy. \u00a0 The road was commissioned by the king of France in 1707 making it one of the oldest roads in Canada. Apparently, as I found out, it took a carriage six days to travel from Montreal to Quebec. With fast horses you could do the trip in two days (or a bicycle.)<\/p>\n

It was a good road with nice wide shoulders, relatively light traffic, historic town names, and occasional striking glimpses of the St Lawrence River.<\/p>\n

The breakfast lasted me ’til lunch were I stopped in Batiscan for a tuna sub.<\/p>\n

After lunch a nice tail wind had picked up and I made good time to Quebec City. \u00a0 Although I enjoy Quebec, visiting the Plains of Abraham, and the old city this time there was no one to enjoy it with. Instead since the day was sunny and the wind westerly I resolved to take advantage, cross over on the ferry to Levy and cover as much distance as I could before supper.<\/p>\n

Around 5pm I could feel my strength diminish so I stopped at a good little motel on the St Lawrence River with a decent restaurant within walking distance.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I have been fortunate but the motels that I stayed at in Quebec have been excellent. The care and attention by the proprietors is similar to what I have come to expect in bed and breakfasts. The hosts are attentive and friendly, they are generally less expensive, they don’t have any frills like antique furniture, artwork, and quaint ornaments (which are lost on me), and are more private. I highly recommend the three motels; Motel Capri in Repentigny, Motel Marquis in Trois Rivieres, and now at Motel Beausejour in Berthier-sur-mer.<\/p>\n

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Beach on the north shore of the St Lawrence between Trois Rivieres and Quebec.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Church in a town on the North Shore. Typical of old Quebec towns.<\/div><\/div>
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View of Quebec (Hotel Frontenac and the old city) from the ferry crossing to Levy.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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An inviting path going north east along the Route de Verte from the ferry terminal in Levy.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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An inviting path going north east along the Route de Verte from the ferry terminal in Levy.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The Gulf of St Lawrence from the restaurant window in Berthier-sur-mer.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 43 – Berthier-sur-mer, Quebec (Thursday, June 18, 2015) I took advantage of the continental breakfast at the motel (Motel Marquis) where I was served home made swiss bread. I struggled to communicate with the proprietor and his wife. It turned out that they were from a french area of Switzerland, were taught German as … Continue reading Day 43 – Berthier-sur-mer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyclingtour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}