New Brunswick Trip - Day 17, Fromagerie, monsoon and pictures of the house.

 We awoke to grey again and "V"s of Snow Geese buzzing the hotel. Everything was good about this hotel except the coffee so first stop was a Tim Hortons. The next thing I was looking for was a "Fromagerie" as Quebec cheese has quite the reputation. Luckily they are signposted, as tourist attractions, off the highway. So we followed signs to

A lovely young lady, behind the counter, spoke English, and described their 5 most popular cheeses, all made on the farm with milk from their own animals, kept in the barn we passed as we drove in..

I bought a small amount of all five.

Their website

http://www.lemoutonblanc.ca/index.php

The weather held off until about 1pm, when Rick took over driving and "the heavens opened", just before we hit Montreal. It was a monsoon for about an hour but luckily it broke so that we could find our way on to the Montreal bypass. We commented that we are not used to driving with this many cars on the road, New Brunswick roads have been almost empty. Because I have no other pictures for this post, the following are some of Rob and Jen's house.

We basically lived on the second floor, that consisted of the kitchen/dining room/

living room. We had a fire in here one night, with the chairs swiveled around to face it, but mostly the weather was too warm to feel like a fire.

Morning coffee and afternoon wine/beer was spent here. It divides the 2 other spaces and there is a deck outside those huge doors with a view of Minister's Island.

The master bedroom is also on this floor

with an ensuite bathroom. The jacuzzi tub was heaven, the shower could hold a family of 6 (though there were only 4 shower heads) and we never used the sauna.

That floor also had a two piece bathroom with washer and dryer.

The groundfloor had the entrance foyer, a huge garage, a 3 piece bathroom and a massive recreation room

outside those doors was a large covered deck with a couch, muskoka chairs and a hot tub.

The third floor had 3 more bedroom, 2 bathrooms and an office area.

The fourth floor was the "belvedere" but unfortunately the chairs were not high enough

to take advantage of that view or I think I would have spent some time up there.

A belvedere /ˈbɛlvɪdɪər/ or belvidere (from Italian for "fair view") is an architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view. from Wikipedia.

There was also a basement that was just for storage and furnaces etc. It was a gorgeous house and I count myself very lucky that Rob and Jen let us use it.