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I left my Uncle’s home and was on the road by around 9:30 this morning. It took a little while to find my way to the bike path onto the bridge since I was taking a different bridge than yesterday which would be more direct for my ride today. It took me all the way across the river and onto a road out of the city which eventually became highway 138. I got to see the old olympic stadium on the way by too.

I followed highway 138 all day today except for a few places where La Route Verte detoured around the main road of a town along the way. I decided to ignore a number of the detours because they seemed to go in the wrong direction or add too much distance compared to the main route. La Route Verte is a network of marked bike routes that stretch all over Quebec. I have so far found some of the road conditions to be quite poor for a bike route. But overall it is quite good. As a result there are also many other cyclists on the road heading in either direction.

I had lunch in St-Sulpice which was only a third of the way along my long ride today. But at least it was better than my day riding into Kingston when I took lunch at only a fifth of the way through an equally long day.

I checked into the hostel in Trois-Rivières and used the kitchen to cook myself dinner. After dinner I wandered around the old historic parts of town briefly. It’s much smaller than Old Montreal was so didn’t take too long.

I’m finding that while in Quebec, most people I encounter are able to speak english but the fact that they speak french first makes me feel like quite a stranger. If only I hadn’t forgotten it all from high school.