Date:         Sun, 7 Jan 2007 01:17:27 -0500
Reply-To:     Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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From:         Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Baie Comeau to Labrador to Newfoundland-Seabreeze
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:::>:::and 2) a quick trip to
:::>:::France!!!! from the Burin Penn.
:::
:::
:::
:::>And expensive.  That ferry is $CA 97, no vans allowed.  So if you go for
:::>overnight you need to pay for lodging too.  (I paid $CA 50 for a nice
:::B&B
:::>close to the ferry, brought my bicycle and had a good time riding around
:::the
:::>island of St. Pierre.)  I used to live in (mainland) France, so I
:::definitely
:::>wanted to check out St. Pierre et Miquelon, but I don't think it would
:::be
:::>worth doing again.
:::
:::Dot and I found the people of St. Pierre somewhat unfriendly towards us

But of course - they are French!  I speak French well enough that native
speakers have mistaken me for one of them, but they still weren't friendly
in St. Pierre.  I'd gotten used to the Quebecers and Acadians (and even
their funny French), and to the Newfoundlanders, all of whom were
delightful.  So I chatted with the folks in St. Pierre as if they were
friendly Canadians.  Guess what, they weren't!  :-)


:::and quite expensive (everything was priced in Euro$).  The only nice
:::person in St. Pierre was in the tourist office.  Newfoundlanders and
:::Quebecers were way more friendly.  We will not be visiting St. Pierre
:::again.

I'm glad I went, but it isn't worth the cost to go again.  Besides, it begin
France, everyone there smokes cigarettes, which meant I couldn't even go out
to a nice (albeit expensive) French restaurant for dinner, because there was
too much smoke!

St. Pierre is beautiful - but so is everyplace else in Newfoundland.  At
least if you like open space, bogs, and the sea!  I think Newfoundland is
what Cape Cod might have been like a hundred years ago.




Joy