Thinking like the Quebecois

Today is a kind of national holiday in Quebec. Or rather it would be a national holiday if 0.6% of the people had switched their vote in the referendum and Quebec had gone it's own way as a country rather than a province. Anyway as they'd picked out an Independence day, and being careful to guard against waste, Quebec has a provincial holiday exactly one week before Canada has a holiday of its own.

So with the sun shining, the digital thermometers saying 28c and nothing to do we decided to head for the park and for the beach. The trouble was, so did everyone else. Which meant traffic, a parking spot 5km from the beach and a long walk through the park to a beach that already looked like this and still had 1000s of people pouring down towards it, hot body after hot body.

We bailed, headed for the nearest Marina, had some lunch and headed for home.... old? Nah, just sans beachwear until our stuff turns up and sans sun tan lotion and towels (burns and sandy crevices, ouch) for the nude beach...

Countryside was lovely though