day 21: montreal, qb
breakfast on emily's porch+walking up the mont royal and getting a wonderful panorama of the city+montreal allouettes vs. hamilton wildcats: canadian football game+cheerleaders are here!
montreal's panorama from the peak of mont royalallo stopping to quebec city with serge in his oldsmobile (allo stop is an organized and legalized hitch-hiking agency, i truly recommend; too bad only qubecois people are smart enough to get it running)+listening to live jazz in the park at night+couchsurfing with alex and simon
serge's oldsmobileday 23: quebec city, qb to riviere-du-loup, qb
amazing breakfast prepared by simon, our couchsurfing host+walk around quebec vieux+loads of tourists and cycling races+orleans express taking us north to riviere-du-loup, qb, where we stayed auberge de sojour (the only night during the whole trip we paid for)
quebec vieuxday 24: riviere-du-loup, qb
getting to see st lawrence river (in a local language "quebec" means "where the river becomes narrow" referring to this very river)+tim hortons+pfk=kfc in quebec+waiting for a train at 1.09am
by the st lawrence river banks, local "road art"day 25: riviere-du-loup, qb to moncton, nb to saint john, nb full-service in the train (soooo comfortable!)+catching the bus to saint john, nb in moncton, nb (barely)+@ saint john tourist info being offered to hitch-hike with some random guys who were going to the same campsite+camping in the rockwood park (sausage dinner and gazing at the stars)
riviere-du-loup train station at nightday 26: saint john, nb to digby, ns to annapolis royal, ns arriving at the docks at 12:05pm and catching the ferry which was supposed to leave at 12:00pm+sunny ride on the atlantic waters+again, getting offered a hitch-hike ride from digby, ns to annapolis royal, ns (the first european settlement in north america where settlers survived for more than a year)+candlelight graveyard tour (!)
annapolis royal, ns: the first european settlement in north americawhere people had lived for longer than one year
day 27: annapolis royal, ns to lunenburg, ns 50c showers at the campsite+farmers' and traders' market+hitch-hiking to lunenburg, ns (done in 3 cars, the last being driven by the president and ceo of "clearwater", one of the largest lobster-fishing company in canada)+l-u-n-e-n-b-u-r-g at last (unesco heritage site, btw)+seafood stew for dinner, mmmmm...
seafood stew for dinner after a succesful hitch-hiking ridemmm...
day 28: lunenburg, ns to halifax, ns talking to a retired fisherman at the farmers' and traders' market+atlantic shore+sleepy ride to halifax, ns with "kiwi kaboodle" shuttle+ couchsurfing at luke george's and participating in a random party..
the atlantic watersday 29: halifax, ns waterfront+pier 21 museum (this is where european immigrants landed when they first reached canada)+looking for a halifax souvenir+finding one in a second-hand bookstore (1942 edition of town's best stories)+public gardens+visiting alexander keith's brewery (the moment i had been waiting for most impatiently - only then i realized that we had made it all the way across!)+midnight walk to catch the airporter
my individualized souvenir from halifax"tales told under the oldtown clock" (ed. 1942)
niagara falls
toronto, on somewhere along younge streetday 32: toronto, on buying a "toronto star" from a newspaper vending machine and getting decadent and pseudo-intelectual in a "second cup" cafe+toronto cn tower (3 hour long experience, not sure if worth all the waiting)+preparing dinner at anne's and jp's
view of toronto from the cn towerday 33: toronto, on to vancouver, bc early at the airport with male+immense sadness the trip is over+5 hrs flight back to bc+bussing back to east pender street where everything begun a month ago... knowing that nothing will taste the same ever again...
the immense sadness at toronto airportT-H-E E-N-D
