La Flavour Quebecois

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Marieville/Montreal to Charney/Levis/Quebec City

From one quaint Quebecois town to another via Highway 133 & 132 made for an interesting thoroughly engrossing day ... too bad I had to keep the van on the road avoiding collisions with transports, bicycles and Detroit Mercedes wanabees.

Every 100meters there was something of interest to shoot either with the phone or one of my three Sony Cybershots.

Did stop for;

the ultimate Quebec habitant design house with the dormers and curving roof,

the double silver steeples of a 19th century stone Catholic Church,

the Nicolet Cathedral that was built in the sixties and reflects the lines of the Olympic complex in Montreal,

the pontoon airplane in the middle of a field beside many others,

the corncrib three stories high and one city block long (well maybe not a whole block but two good country lots anyway),

thousands upon thousands of snow geese! feeding in partially flooded fields,

village streets where the front steps of houses lead directly onto and into the highway traffic...

no kidding, and big transports pass thru this villages delivering whatever!

and

bridges crossed on purpose and those crossed while taking alternative route to get to where I was supposed to be going in the first place (cheated and took shots while holding fone against steering wheel).

On the way I stopped at the Nicolet Cathedral. All the doors were locked …I wanted to see the huge stained glass window from inside … I hung around long enough and my wait was rewarded. A young man who was doing electrical work on the new organ installation let me come in with him. It was worth the hanging around. If not him I would have accosted someone else …there all kind of people going into a neighbouring building ….someone always knows someone with a key.

Spoke with a man in Leclercville at a roadside park. Lots of fire pits, picnic tables and a small building with toilets, a shower and a washer and dryer. The man, traveling with his motorcycle said he had never come across such a convenience before.

Leclercville is a municipality located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 477 as of 2011. Wikipedia. Too bad they have no picture of the small hut.

It took me until today to figure out why the houses so impress me. I drove for 60km along the shore of the Richelieu River …the whole stretch was built up with very sheeshee houses ….most on the river side and none of them had garage doors dominating the front façade. The favourite colour seems to be a dark mango that looks very similar to the middle lines on the highway …who is benefiting from left overs? …the houses or the road crews? There were no two houses with the same lines …all were unique …for 60km. Purple, magenta, orange, pink, turquoise and various shades of poison green adorned either the whole house or were used as accents. The one colour that repeated again and again was the deep mango and a daffodil yellow ….wonder how they look in a snow storm … can’t be losing your at home that’s for sure.

One property I drove past had a blooming magnolia tree standing in front past the height of the two store house … absolutely magnificent. Like I said …could have stopped every 100m to take pictures… and still be out there … would have missed the rush hour traffic mess!

All in all it was a great drive …until I became surrounded by rush hour traffic. The only thing to do is go with the flow … the flow brought me across the St Lawrence to the doorstep of Quebec City … and as close I was there was no knocking but a quick retreat right across again on a different bridge and on the right track to the Auberge de Charney … very nice place…9.3 on a scale of 10 according to bookings.

…enjoyed driving along the water. Will continue on highway 132 tomorrow heading towards Riviere de Loup. Will there be a huge fox statue? ..like the Canada Goose in Wawa.





From one quaint Quebecois town to another via Highway 133 & 132 made for an interesting thoroughly engrossing day ... too bad I had to keep the van on the road avoiding collisions with transports, bicycles and Detroit Mercedes wanabees.

Every 100meters there was something of interest to shoot either with the phone or one of my three Sony Cybershots.

Did stop for;

the ultimate Quebec habitant design house with the dormers and curving roof,

the double silver steeples of a 19th century stone Catholic Church,

the Nicolet Cathedral that was built in the sixties and reflects the lines of the Olympic complex in Montreal,

the pontoon airplane in the middle of a field beside many others,

the corncrib three stories high and one city block long (well maybe not a whole block but two good country lots anyway),

thousands upon thousands of snow geese! feeding in partially flooded fields,

village streets where the front steps of houses lead directly onto and into the highway traffic...

no kidding, and big transports pass thru this villages delivering whatever!

and

bridges crossed on purpose and those crossed while taking alternative route to get to where I was supposed to be going in the first place (cheated and took shots while holding fone against steering wheel).

All in all it was a great drive …until I became surrounded by rush hour traffic. The only thing to do is go with the flow … the flow brought me across the St Lawrence to the doorstep of Quebec City … and as close I was there was no knocking but a quick retreat right across again on a different bridge and on the right track to the Auberge de Charney … very nice place…9.3 on a scale of 10 according to bookings.

On the way I stopped at the Nicolet Cathedral. All the doors were locked …I wanted to see the huge stained glass window from inside … I hung around long enough and my wait was rewarded. A young man who was doing electrical work on the new organ installation let me come in with him. It was worth the hanging around. If not him I would have accosted someone else …there all kind of people going into a neighbouring building ….someone always knows someone with a key.

Spoke with a man in Leclercville at a roadside park. Lots of fire pits, picnic tables and a small building with toilets, a shower and a washer and dryer. The man, traveling with his motorcycle said he had never come across such a convenience before.

Leclercville is a municipality located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 477 as of 2011. Wikipedia. Too bad they have no picture of the small hut.





It took me until today to figure out why the houses so impress me. I drove for 60km along the shore of the Richelieu River …the whole stretch was built up with very sheeshee houses ….most on the river side and none of them had garage doors dominating the front façade. The favourite colour seems to be a dark mango that looks very similar to the middle lines on the highway …who is benefiting from left overs? …the houses or the road crews? There were no two houses with the same lines …all were unique …for 60km. Purple, magenta, orange, pink, turquoise and various shades of poison green adorned either the whole house or were used as accents. The one colour that repeated again and again was the deep mango and a daffodil yellow ….wonder how they look in a snow storm … can’t be losing your at home that’s for sure.

One property I drove past had a blooming magnolia tree standing in front past the height of the two store house … absolutely magnificent. Like I said …could have stopped every 100m to take pictures… and still be out there … would have missed the rush hour traffic mess!

…enjoyed driving along the water. Will continue on highway 132 tomorrow heading towards Riviere de Loup. Will there be a huge fox statue? ..like the Canada Goose in Wawa.

Marieville/Montreal to Charney/Levis/Quebec City



From one quaint Quebecois town to another via Highway 133 & 132 made for an interesting thoroughly engrossing day ... too bad I had to keep the van on the road avoiding collisions with transports, bicycles and Detroit Mercedes wanabees.

Every 100meters there was something of interest to shoot either with the phone or one of my three Sony Cybershots.

Did stop for;

the ultimate Quebec habitant design house with the dormers and curving roof,

the double silver steeples of a 19th century stone Catholic Church,

the Nicolet Cathedral that was built in the sixties and reflects the lines of the Olympic complex in Montreal,

the pontoon airplane in the middle of a field beside many others,

the corncrib three stories high and one city block long (well maybe not a whole block but two good country lots anyway),

thousands upon thousands of snow geese! feeding in partially flooded fields,

village streets where the front steps of houses lead directly onto and into the highway traffic...

no kidding, and big transports pass thru this villages delivering whatever!

and

bridges crossed on purpose and those crossed while taking alternative route to get to where I was supposed to be going in the first place (cheated and took shots while holding fone against steering wheel).

All in all it was a great drive …until I became surrounded by rush hour traffic. The only thing to do is go with the flow … the flow brought me across the St Lawrence to the doorstep of Quebec City … and as close I was there was no knocking but a quick retreat right across again on a different bridge and on the right track to the Auberge de Charney … very nice place…9.3 on a scale of 10 according to bookings.

On the way I stopped at the Nicolet Cathedral. All the doors were locked …I wanted to see the huge stained glass window from inside … I hung around long enough and my wait was rewarded. A young man who was doing electrical work on the new organ installation let me come in with him. It was worth the hanging around. If not him I would have accosted someone else …there all kind of people going into a neighbouring building ….someone always knows someone with a key.

Spoke with a man in Leclercville at a roadside park. Lots of fire pits, picnic tables and a small building with toilets, a shower and a washer and dryer. The man, traveling with his motorcycle said he had never come across such a convenience before.

Leclercville is a municipality located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 477 as of 2011. Wikipedia. Too bad they have no picture of the small hut.

It took me until today to figure out why the houses so impress me. I drove for 60km along the shore of the Richelieu River …the whole stretch was built up with very sheeshee houses ….most on the river side and none of them had garage doors dominating the front façade. The favourite colour seems to be a dark mango that looks very similar to the middle lines on the highway …who is benefiting from left overs? …the houses or the road crews? There were no two houses with the same lines …all were unique …for 60km. Purple, magenta, orange, pink, turquoise and various shades of poison green adorned either the whole house or were used as accents. The one colour that repeated again and again was the deep mango and a daffodil yellow ….wonder how they look in a snow storm … can’t be losing your at home that’s for sure.

One property I drove past had a blooming magnolia tree standing in front past the height of the two store house … absolutely magnificent. Like I said …could have stopped every 100m to take pictures… and still be out there … would have missed the rush hour traffic mess!

…enjoyed driving along the water. Will continue on highway 132 tomorrow heading towards Riviere de Loup. Will there be a huge fox statue? ..like the Canada Goose in Wawa.

Again all pics frominternet images .. until I figure out how tomake my "smart"phone give up my shots.

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