Montreal, 3rd September

Liz and I are now on our friends' farm about 50km outside Montreal in Quebec. We met Murray and Marilyn on our cycling trip in Europe in 2008 and have been here before in the winter a couple of years ago. Their house is beside a river and is surrounded by trees. All very quiet and a great place to relax. They have friends coming over for dinner this evening; we met them on New Year's Eve 2009.

The previous two nights were spent on Gull Lake near Minden about 150km north east of Toronto. We were staying with Barbara Reid who is mayor of the local shire and was celebrating her birthday with her 7 brothers and sisters and spouses......yes a very social couple of days. She has a dock beside her cottage and a power boat with a 90 horse motor. So we spent a great deal of time swimming and sampling wine! John even tried water skiing.

I was presented with a Canadian cap, flag and tee shirt to congratulate me for cycling across Canada, and was bestowed with the title Captain Canada.

Tomorrow we will go to into Montreal.