Monday, August 8, 2011

Day 72: Quebec City (0km)

Today was exactly what Vanessa and I needed: a restful day with lots of food and a chance to try and kick the rust off our french. Vanessa definitely has a much higher mastery of the Parisian tongue than I, but both of us have struggled more than we would like to admit in the past few days.

Something clicks in our bodies on rest days that pushes us to eat anything we can get our hands on. We had our first breakfast at the Inn quickly followed by two more in the old city. We supplemented that at lunch with poutine and veggie burgers, and topped it all off with a jumbo pizza in the room for dinner. This doesn't count the bananas, granola and cookies we fit in-between.

It's always fun to explore a new city especially one with as rich a history as Quebec. Tomorrow it will be tough to roll out of our comfy bed and back onto the road to St John's, but we definitely have some fun coming along the way.

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2 comments:

  1. I'm amazed and intrigued by the reports about the amount of food you are consuming. When you say 3 breakfasts, do you really mean 3 whole breakfasts?? Anyway, keep up the good riding!

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  2. Hi Heather! That one was a funny morning because we started with a continental breakfast at the motel that was lighter than usual. I think we each had five pieces of toast with various spreads (PB, cream cheese, jam for Alex), a banana each, a few handfuls of granola for me and cereal for Alex. We were starving by the time we got downtown and had our second breakfast at a cafe, thinking that an egg bagel would be enough to tide us over until lunch; it wasn't. We ended up settling in to an all-day breakfast place a few minutes later, for the standard egg/hashbrown specials.

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