Lepod's Blog

The drive north to the border from Liberty was very pleasant, lots of forests and fairly light traffic. We stopped near Plattsburgh for lunch, and then drove until we hit the border about 5 hours after we’d set off. The Canadian border guard was mostly interested in how much money we were bringing with us for some reason. Once across into Canada we asked Homer to find us some accomodation, and by a piece of luck he directed us to a lovely little Auberge, or Inn, on the river Hudson, surrounded by cornfields in a tiny holiday village. We got the last available room. There was a veranda overlooking the river, a pool, a small bar and a kitchen. Our room also opened out onto it’s own little veranda overlooking the river. The people were very kind and tolerated our lamentable french with plenty of smiles.  Their old black dog, Jessie was friendly to all the guests and kept the staff busy throwing her ball. Pauline had a swim, we sat on the deck and read our books, had a very nice dinner and all in all it was most satisfactory. Next morning we headed off to Montreal airport. I was very grateful to the GPS navigating me through the Montreal traffic! We stopped for luch just near the airport at a place called eggsOeufs which served Quebec breakfasts which in my case consist of eggs, toast, pancakes, fresh fruit, sausages, baked beans and cretons which is a pork spread that goes on your toast. Yummy! We dropped the car at the airport and we were on our way to Paris.