It rained and rained through the night, making me very glad to be in my nice dry motel room watching episode after episode of M*A*S*H on tv. By the morning it had cleared up and I decided to keep moving rather than take a rest day. Today’s Distance (miles/km): / 94 Time in saddle: 4h […]

Some technical problems over the last few days have meant no blog – the big storm below meant several places I needed to connect from had no wifi. Last night (actually two night ago now – Ed) I received a weather warning, from my weather app and also very thoughtfully from Amanda back in Wisconsin […]

Today was the start of following the Saint Lawrence on the south side, just a short distance from the US border with Maine. It’s funny to think that if it wasn’t for Maine sticking up to the north the way it does, those of us cycling across Canada would probably go straight from Montreal to […]

I went for the ‘big’ breakfast at the hostel this morning, from a choice of two, the other being ‘small’. I mean, really, do you even have to ask? André had some suggestions for my day in the city – a cool cafe for a lazy coffee and an unusual poutine place that does some […]

As a little extra today, I’ve made a short video especially for kids (hello Mai Lan, Nell Buckton, Max Mills, Millie Giles, all the kids in Souris, Manitoba, and all my pupils from Beechwood enjoying their holidays!), and also anyone wanting to practise playing a bit of very simple ukulele, or both, so please dig […]

This campsite has an innovation of which I approve. Local French radio pumped into the washrooms. This morning as I did my three pieces of washing up and brossé mes dents I listened to some voice-crackingly emotional singing performances of what might actually be quite nice songs. It made me think about a conversation we […]