Eastern Canada, Here we Come – Riviere du Loup, Quebec -2025

This will be the shortest post ever. We left Moncton and headed to Riviere du Loup, Quebec, about a 5-6 hour drive. It was a long day and we set up our trailer at Camping du Quai and went into town for a drink and a bite to eat.

I should mention, we could really smell the smoke today. Parts of Nova Scotia were on fire and it was very strong winds bringing the smell this far. Canada always has a lot of forest fires and this year was particularly bad.

Aux Fous Brassant Microbrasserie was where we stopped for a bite and a drink on this dark and gloomy day.

  • Inside Aux Fous Brassant Microbrasserie
  • Our Campground, an actual one, not a field
  • Aux Fous Brassant Microbrasserie

Short post…..moving on……next stop Trois Riviere. This is another place I would absolutely go back to, we really enjoyed our days here.

Until next time…

12 thoughts on “Eastern Canada, Here we Come – Riviere du Loup, Quebec -2025”

    1. Clint understands a bit of French but I’m pretty good at reading and speaking it, not a pro at it for sure ! But I can get by. It’s so beautiful in the province of Quebec and has such a European feel to it.

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  2. That was a wild-looking sky. I was trying to read the beer “menu” using my limited French … not bad since a lot of the words we learned were colors … Yellow Dog, for instance. 🙂 I’ll look forward to the rest of your Quebec visit. I’ve never been to Quebec. My grandfather was born in St. Jerome, Quebec and my parents went there to visit Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré. She was pregnant with me at the time.

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    1. Oh I didn’t know that about your grandfather and you are practically French yourself! lol That is a cool part of your family history. I do love that province, hopefully we’ll get back there next summer, they have a ton of beautiful bike trails too.

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      1. Yes, I’m part French-Canadian Susan. Funny story which I’ve shared in my blog, but before we followed one another. My grandfather would have spoken a different type of French than we learned in elementary school which I think in school was Parisienne French. We went to visit my grandparents one time and my grandfather who was an ornery old man, asked me what I was learning in school, so I rattled off some of my French vocabulary. He called me “stupid” and said my teacher was “stupid” as well as we didn’t know how to speak French properly. I slid down to the floor and bit him in the ankle. My grandmother saw me and thought it was funny as he was yelling at me and yelping about the “pain”. He never asked how my French lessons were going again. I was raised very strictly, so I have no idea what got into me to do that. I remember my mom saying it was a beautiful province.

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      2. Oh dear ! Bit in the ankle eh? Well I guess he deserved it a bit! Yes we learn Parisienne French but Canadians don’t speak Parisienne French. They have a different version. I took a lot of French classes and would ask some of the guys who worked for me, who were French, to help sometimes with my homework and they said I was learning words quite differently than what they spoke. When we were in Paris last year, I had a couple of French people, in a nice way, tell me I wasn’t pronouncing some words properly and when they found out I was Canadian, there was that Ah I see kind of head nod. lol

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      3. Interesting! Yes, my grandfather was a piece of work for sure. I had a wonderful French teacher in the community college I attended. She was an older woman, who spent every Summer in France, so she had plenty of time to get acclimated to speaking French there as opposed to how she taught here. I kept in touch with her for years afterward. When I transferred to Wayne State University, I took advanced French and we weren’t allowed to speak any English in class. Mr. Spinella, our teacher, was Italian and also taught Italian courses and he spoke extremely fast with an accent – it took me awhile to adjust after Miss Chrobak’s class.

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      4. I do have to have them speak somewhat slowly, I need to hear the words defined and not all running together. I took Spanish but I’ve forgotten it, I should brush up on it again and practice.

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      5. That’s the thing – you really have to practice all the time or you will lose it. After I finished all the years of college French, I used to go to a bookstore that carried foreign newspapers and buy French newspapers. Keeping up on it is difficult. When I was planning a land tour in Greece and Greek islands cruise in 1981, I went to the library and got a record album to learn how to speak Greek. I shut that idea down pretty quickly!

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      6. Languages aren’t easy for me. But I read somewhere, a long time ago, that as English speakers, we should be learning German and that type of language. The Romance languages, French, Spanish etc are harder for us to learn. I would like to learn German one day but I don’t know if we will ever get there !

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      7. My mom pushed my father to teach me German but he never did. I have heard that English is the most-difficult language to learn because so many words have double meanings, but are spelled the same … think of led, lead, lead … very difficult for the foreign-born to learn. A fellow blogger is married to a German who speaks fluent Spanish and English and she has been studying German for several years, so it’s great she has someone to communicate with to help her learn.

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