Trois-Riviere, Shawinigan & Chemin du Roy (King's Way)

Another hot sunny day and we decided to explore the old town (Trois-Riviere) on foot. After a bit of maneuvering, we found a place to park truck and trailer  I found the neatest little shop, where the young woman repurposed clothes, great window display! We could do this girls (with your ideas and my skills).

Window Display (sorry for the reflection)

Denis saw a ship named Pacific Basin and wondered if someone forgot to tell them that the St. Lawrence Seaway doesn't connect with the Pacific! We took a break at a sidewalk cafe for a café latte glace and shared a chocolatine, very tasty. Before leaving the area we visited Les Forges du Saint Maurice, the birthplace of the iron/steel industry in North America. It's a very peaceful park but you can imagine the activity in smoke and heat that was there 300 years ago.

Then it was down the road to Shawinigan, for a 'Handshake'. After a false start we headed to Le Trou du dialbe (Devil's Hole) and Denis finally got his 'Handshake'.  We tried to go to a bakery in Grand-Mere but some small businesses here are closed on Tuesdays.



Some of  you will remember the inspiration for this

So, is that glass half full or half empty?

We headed south to Champlain and got on the Chemin du Roy, maybe it was fit for a king when we had a king but it's definitely the road more potholey and scenic. We stopped at a fromagerie and bought some award winning cheese. We skirted the west end of Quebec City and crossed the Pierre Laporte bridge and are camped to the southwest in St Nicholas

Today there was rain in the forecast so we drove to the Ile D'Orleans the rain didn't materialize but it was very windy. The island is in the middle of the St Lawrence just east of the city, 34km long by 8 km at the widest part. It was settled in the 1600's so very impressive old churches and traditional French architecture; and strawberry fields forever! Main industry today is tourism, you can hardly go a 1/2 km without a restaurant, fruit stand, winery or historic site and there was one microbrewery where we had lunch. We had a good day and not too many of the 600,000 tourists who visit each year were there today.