Weekend in the Laurentides

After the class on Thursday, when of course I had already handed in the assignments due tomorrow, I went straight home. And did the finall check of my material, until Rémi arrived with the car. We went upstairs to my room and talked for a minute, went downstairs to eat something and as we wanted to leave, we got a parking ticket for 15$.

Talkative as we are, we went to the UW Police Station, and got the stuff settled, so that we didn’t have to pay.

Then it took as a long way north-east on the highway. Unfortunately we weren’t able to see anything, since it was already dark outside. Finally we found the cheapest fuel ever. – In Québec next to the US border. 83.5 ¢/liter!

Cheapest fuel ever!

Our hosts in Ottawa!

Finally we arrived just before 2 ‘clock at our host’s Martin house in” Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard”. We did not want to wake Marti up. So we just set up my tent in the freezing  -5°C just next to the lake (and a now uninhabited summer house). The wmount of stars that we were able to see at this time was incredible. – Due o the cold, ther was no humidity in the air to obscur the view.

In the following days we meet my friends Sébastien and Bianca, wom I met on the trip to Val-David with Christiane in October. We go to see the Mont Tremblant National Park. And then finally sleep from Saturday to Sunday in a “collocation” (there is no such word in English as the French Canadian “collocataires” tell us). This “collacation” is full of nice people, all are real left wing people, anarchists maybe, and they have Peace and Palestina flags hanging around. Some of they are studying International Development at University of Ottawa. We joined them for a short moment smoking Marihuana. – I guess it would even have been nicer, if Rémi would have been able to get some more sleep tonight. – Il a vraiment le someil peu profond! – And as we didn’t have bed’s for each of us, as last night, but shared a matress, his pain to get some sleep is even more understandable. Nevertheless and astonishingly he was again very much in form the next day … !

Ottawa was a nice place to see, then we went to hike in the “Parc de la Gattineau Park” – this was marvellous.

Then we returned home to KW at midnight.