Monday, October 7, 2024

Sept. 16th, 2024, Day 20 East Coast - Parc National du Bic to Ottawa

This was our last day of the trip. Again the weather was nice. We packed up our gear, had breakfast and then started the drive from Rimouski home. We mostly used the various highways. Our first stop was a coffee stop for Margaret at the next Tim Hortens adjacent to the road.

Our next stop was at Fromagerie des Basques in Trois Pistoles. This is a very large fromagerie in a relatively new building. They also sell bread, sausages and dairy products. We bought some cheese from them.

We also visited Poissonnerie Verseau 11 in Trois Pistoles and bought more smoke fish items.

Then we continued our drive to the Costco in Quebec City. On the way we ended up in a 20 minute traffic jam close to Quebec City. At the Costco we filled up gas, bought more cheese and some bottles of wine that are not available in Ottawa.

We had a lunch stop a Parc des Berges near the town of Donnacona. This was a very nice stop. There were benches and a washroom in a nice setting with trees. Having nice baguettes with smoked fish items and cheese also helped lifting our spirits. Afterwards we continued our drive to Les Fromageries de la Table Ronde. The fromagerie is located north of Montreal and Google Maps guided us even earlier north than we expected to avoid rush hour traffic jams in the Montreal area. We made it in time to the fromagerie and bought a decent amount of cheese (Fleuron, Menestrel, and Fou du Roi (a new cheese of theirs)).

Now we embarked on our last leg towards Ottawa. Google Maps guided us on very rural roads to avoid further traffic jams close to the St. Jerome/Mirabel area and then we finally were on the right highway without much traffic towards Gatineau. The remainder of the trip was uneventful. Only the low sun in the evening sky was a bit of a nuisance while approaching Gatineau. Anyway, we made it safely home. 

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