Hotel

This is the Hotel Port aux Basques. The town is called Channel-Port aux Basques - two towns merged some decades ago.

On the menu was cod tongue. I plan to try it but not today. Was seasick for the whole 6+ hr trip. Had moose soup which is made just like beef and veg and was very good.

This area feels super remote. It reminds me a lot of stuff you see on TV of remote Alaskan fishing towns. I'm eating in the hotel's dining room and there's like 6 other people - plus 12 construction workers at one table, many still wearing reflective vests. The hotel served their food by name. And took their orders for breakfast tomorrow. And lunch! When there's so few options and resources are not plentiful you need to pull together.

On a gossipy note one of the construction workers ate a soup in a funny way. He emptied two or three crackers into it. Then another. Then another so now there was a hill of cracker. Then two more like a cartoon.

It appears the construction workers all got here by ATV. So maybe they were an ATV club.Читать далее