June 14. Our trip to the Canadian Maritime Provinces started on a tense note. We had reserved a compact car with Hertz for the trip. When we arrived at Hertz at Woodward and Thirteen Mile Road, the attendant informed us that he had no cars available (just like the Seinfeld episode) and he immediately called other locations to see if they had a car for us. Eventually he located a Toyota Prius for us and we were on our way about an hour late. The Prius is great though as it will easily pay for itself in the savings on fuel. The only other hiccup was a semi roll over accident around Kingston, Ontario on the 401 that cost us another hour and a half. Again the Prius sipped fuel while we sat idle and the engine only started a couple of times to recharge the batteries. We reached our destination in Montreal and crashed after dinner.
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| Notre Dame |
June 15. Originally we thought we could spend a couple of days in Montreal and a couple of days in Quebec City on our way to the maritimes. After planning the itinerary and realizing Newfoundland was going to have to wait for another time, we decided to also do a separate trip back to Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa at a later date. We did spend the day in Montreal in historic old Montreal. We toured Rue St. Paul, the cathedral of Notre Dame and the waterfront. I think we walked about 15 miles and had a great lunch at a small cafe. We also sampled the smoked meat sandwich on rye (similar to corned beef or pastrami) and poutine (fries with gravy and cheese curds) for dinner. YUM!!! (Hey Bill Swerski, I think I have a cheese curd lodged in lining of my heart) Apparently this is a Montreal favorite.
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| Early Stone Building in Old Montreal |
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| The riverfront |
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| Smoke meat sandwich and poutine |
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