Sue-pear day (super, with ~local pronunciation)! Super breakfast of Swiss apple omelette and warm well wishes from Nicole & Claude at Dans les Draps de Morphee. Super beautiful scenery (perhaps because it was so familiar, following a river valley most of the day, with lush forests and water gushing from rock walls at the roadside), super nice that it didn't rain, super long day, with almost 1Km climb over 116+Kms, with wind from the direction we were travelling (north) - the cool breeze was nice, however it made the climb a bit tougher. Super shoulders on the roadway, and rest stops, with benches, toilets (well, not all of them) and even people! Super quaint town we are staying - Val Brillant - and the Gite Grand-Père Nicole proprietors suggested we go to L'épicerie and pick up some supplies and they prepared a table and warmed our 2-person :-) tortèire, which was tasty with the salads we had also picked up. In the morning we went through Matapedia, which B remembers from his hitch-hike across Canada 38 years ago!  It was off-season when B was there and he camped three days and then decided to get a bus ticket to Quèbec City, due to no rides being had. Today we saw some of the covered bridges that B was hoping to see & at one of the bridges Y chatted with an elder fellow from New Hampshire who was in hip waders and headed down to one of his favourite fishing holes with a fly rod - we headed off just as the three-part, barbed fly started picking off bits of leaves from the bushes nearby where Y was sitting.

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