Travelling North

Last weekend we ventured to Edmonston which is about a 3 hour drive north of Fredericton. We stayed at another pet friendly motel which had a great view of the city which you will see from the photo below.

On Sunday we travelled another 1 ½ hours further on which took us into the Province of Quebec and we got to see some of the St Lawrence River at Riviere-du-Loup.

The closer one gets to Quebec the more French things become. We are convinced we need to purchase an English/French Dictionary as it has been many years since Ross learnt french at school and I never did. Among other things we noticed was the greatly different style of housing in Quebec with much greater use of brick and a different style from southern New Brunswick.

On the way to Edmondston we acted like the tourist we are and took some interesting turn offs. We visited Hartland NB which has the longest covered wooden bridge in the world. You will see from the photo below just what an interesting site it is.

We also drove through some beautiful little towns like Grand Falls where there is a major waterfall in the centre of town (right next to Burger King) but it was frozen and Notre-Dame-du-Lac which is a small village on a magnificent lake which we must visit again in the spring.

Weather wise we actually reached double figures at the end of last week with the temperature gauge reaching 13 degrees so we got to see our total drive way for the very first time in the 4 months we have been here and the ice covering the pond stated to melt. What joy and the locals were all very happy about the thaw as well. However, just like Melbourne, Fredericton also suffers on occasion with several different temperature changes often on the same day so since Sunday it has rained and snowed and this afternoon the sun was shining. We can now see the driveway once more.


Enjoy life, Love Bev and Ross