Nous recommençons timidement à faire des excursions à l’extérieur de Montréal. Pendant l’hiver et le printemps, nous avons fait quelques sorties d’une journée dans les environs de la ville principalement pour faire des randonnées dans des parcs situés à moins de 50km de Montréal. Au début juin, nous avons décidé de faire une excursion de 4 jours dans la région du Mont-Orford qui se situe à 125km à l’est de Montréal.
Nous semblons toutefois avoir perdu notre aptitude à planifier une série d’excursions dans le temps. Nous avons de la difficulté à prendre des décisions sur les destinations, sur les dates et même sur toute l’organisation des excursions. Il faut dire que nous ne sommes pas sortis beaucoup depuis un an et qu’il est encore difficile de se projeter dans le futur car la situation pandémique reste fragile malgré l’arrivée des vaccins. Nous espérons retrouver nos réflexes d’organisation très bientôt!
Nous sommes arrivés à Magog en milieu d’après-midi à la fin d’une vague de chaleur. Pour nous délier les jambes malgré la chaleur, nous avons décidé de visiter les sentiers du Marais de la Rivière aux Cerises qui est un marais protégé en pleine ville. L’endroit était très joli et nous avons été un peu ambitieux et avons fait une randonnée un peu plus longue que prévue; nous étions un peu épuisé à notre retour à notre hébergement.
We are timidly starting to organize excursions outside of Montreal. During the winter and spring, we made a few day trips around the city mainly to hike in parks located less than 50km from Montreal. At the beginning of June, we decided to make a 4-day excursion in the Mont-Orford region which is located 125km east of Montreal.
However, we seem to have lost our ability to plan a series of excursions. We have difficulty making decisions on destinations, dates and even planning the entire excursions. It must be said that we haven’t travelled much for a year and that it is still difficult to project oneself into the future because the pandemic situation remains fragile despite the arrival of vaccines. We hope to regain our organizational skills very soon!
We arrived in Magog in the middle of the afternoon at the end of a heat wave. To stretch our legs despite the heat, we decided to take in the trails of the Marais de la Rivière aux Cerises which is a protected marsh in the heart of the city. The place was very pretty and we got a little ambitious and hiked a little longer than planned; we were exhausted when we got back to our accommodation.
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We are all understandably a bit rusty getting out and about! Looks like a lovely wetland you visited. Aren’t these early heat waves crazy?
Thanks Eliza for your note. I do love marsh lands; too many of them have disappeared to make space for housing development. We are indeed all very rusty and I certainly hope we can get back in the planning stages soon.
The heat waves are indeed earlier every year. We already have had a few; including one in early May. It is also way too hot out West in your country and mine. They keep breaking heat records and now people are dying from heat exhaustion. Hopefully, our various levels of government will soon wake up to the fact that it is time for drastic measures…
Agreed… I pray it is not too late. 😦
I am glad you at least got a bit of your mojo back. I enjoyed the photos. Particularly the one of the abandoned shack. The sky in the photo of the boardwalk looks surreal. And Pierre looks well contented with his post hike beverage!
Thanks Jacqui. The mojo is far from being back; we haven’t been able to plan any more outings since that one. Though I must admit that we don’t like to travel in the summer with the crowds so with borders still being closed it is difficult to find places where there won’t be so many people. I think we might plan more things for late August and the fall. We are even looking at maybe crossing the country by car…we will see. Always good to read you on the blog…
Coucou et contente de vous retrouver après ce long silence. Mais je me doutais bien que la pandémie étant partout elle vous avait quelque peu bloqués. Je ne connais pas cette “rivière aux cerises” mais je trouve que vous autres amis québécois savez toujours trouver de jolis nom pour les lieux, rivière ou autre.
Je suis certaine que si une nouvelle période de confinement n’arrive pas en fin d’été, vous allez vite retrouver vos réflexes de voyageurs.
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Merci pour ce charmant message. Effectivement, la pandémie nous a incité à rester silencieux sur le blogue. Il n’y a pas grand chose de neuf à partager et pas beaucoup d’énergie pour continuer à visiter les différents blogues qui se perpétuaient. Nous espérons être de retour un peu plus souvent mais cela sera selon nos excursions. Pour l’instant, il n’y a encore rien d’autre de prévu à l’horaire.
Merci pour le URL de votre nouveau site.
Beautiful – and that beer looks very welcome!
Thanks Anabel. The beer was indeed very good and the marsh land was very pretty. It was a nice hike despite the heat…
Great shots, glad to see you’re dipping your toes back into adventures! I know what you mean about traveling, we found it a bit difficult to find places we wanted to go where there’s no crowds, being able to feel safe. Having our living quarters with us certainly makes it easier, we wouldn’t have traveled now if we didn’t have a motorhome. 🙂
Thanks Donna. Glad you enjoyed this series. We never like travelling with the crowds; we aren’t too worry about catching the virus as we are both fully vaccinated but restrictions are changing dailies in various part of the world so it is difficult to plan in advance not knowing what the situation is going to be. And we have done quite a bit of exploring our own province so we feel we have pretty much seen it all… We hope that the border with the US will reopened soon which would allow us to do some exploring of new territories. Have fun in your cross-country tour…there are so many beautiful places in the US…
Looks like a nice hike, though. Glad to see your posts again. Stay healthy and safe, Suzanne and Pierre!
Thanks Bama. Glad you enjoyed this series. We are indeed very well and have stayed healthy throughout the pandemic. We are now fully vaccinated so we hope that borders will start opening so we can start travelling again. I hope you are staying healthy as well…it seems that the virus is taking hold again in Indonesia so keep safe!
Today is the beginning of a 17-day tighter restrictions in Java and Bali because hospitals on both islands are on the verge of collapsing due to the delta variant. On the other hand, the government is ramping up vaccination rollouts across the nation. I really hope the situation will be under control soon.
Good to hear about the vaccination and I hope the situation will get better soon. I know that living in Canada we are privileged as we were able to buy vaccines in sufficient quantities to cover our population. Good luck with everything. Actually, we were hoping to visit Indonesia this fall but had to cancel because the situation wasn’t stable. We hope to be able to visit your country soon…
So glad to see you both back in action on the blog! I agree that travel skills grow rusty, and I’ve also seen my normal ease with making arrangements in the medium-to-long term decline. Small steps — I can only assume things will improve soon and with them our ability to plan and anticipate new trips. 🤞
Thanks Mel. It was good to be out and about for a few days. We do need to get cracking to plan another short trip soon. As for longer adventure, I am aiming for September & October but we have yet to decide where we will go. There will be various new requirements to start travelling internationally and we will need to get used to them like we did after 9-11.
Lovely to see you back blogging again and so good you managed to take this trip. I don’t think I’d know where to start planning an overseas trip now! We’ve got a few days booked down on the southern coast of Western Australia at the start of next month and that is enough to think about (overseas travel won’t be an option for us for maybe 18 months to 2 years or longer) . The photos look very pretty – am sure you were glad to enjoy a drink and a rest after your hike though!
Thanks Rosemary. I totally agree with you that we have lost some of our abilities to plan for oversea trips and I feel for Australian who don’t seem to have prospect of a border reopening anytime soon… For us, this was a nice escape though we haven’t yet been able to organize another one. I must admit that we don’t normally travel much during the summer as we don’t like travelling in high season. We are hoping to do a few more short trips in the coming weeks but we need to sit down to plan them…
Thanks Suzanne – I still have a cabin bag packed that I used to take with me on every trip with things like my phone and iPad chargers, flight socks and packing list etc but it seems so foreign to me now. I still keep them in the bag though as at least I know where they are! I also think it will be a very different travelling experience when we can finally go somewhere again – I think it will be the health equivalent of what it was like after 9/11. We’ll have to do so many more checks to make sure we haven’t got Covid and at present the airlines are charging extortionate prices to come in and out of Australia (for people who can get travel exemptions). It just makes it so hard that I can’t see us going far or even wanting to for a long time. Also we have the problem that here in Western Australia we have pretty well suppressed Covid but other countries that we might potentially visit like the UK are just going to let it run (think this is a big risk but it’s not my decision……). So things like manadatory quarantine for returning travellers will remain here for a long time even with vaccinations and I’m not keen to be cooped up in a hotel for at least 2 weeks at my own expense too. However we do feel safe here and are so lucky in many respects. Hope the planning for your short trips goes well!