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TRAVEL - CANADA
FRANCESCO CICCARELLO & SERENA BARONCINI
LABRADOR & A ROAD
In the north-eastern part of the immense land that is Canada there was a road that had attracted our attention for some years , one that after a long wait we could travel . It ’ s a road that crosses the homeland of the Inuit who until 1960 lived in small isolated locations , making up the main part of the population .
To get to ride it we ’ d decide to start the journey in Quebec City , a city that boasts many records and an artistic heritage that conquered us . It is the only city on the North American continent with a historic centre that is still surrounded by walls and hosted the first parish church , the first museum and the first girls ' school . It would also give us the first real cold with water that seemed to be freezing despite the calendar showing late June .
The weather did not discourage the hordes of tourists that the city attracts and we mixed in with the flow that ran along the perimeter of the fortifications while observing the citadel , the largest defensive structure in North America . When we reached the Château , a hotel built in the 18th century by the railway company to host businessmen who had come this far , our day as tourists in the city was over .
To reach the start of the 500 we had to travel the almost 600 kilometres of the 389 which initially runs alongside the San Lorenzo river on the most classic and monotonous of Canadian highways .
Things became very interesting once we ' d passed Comeau Bay where we finally took out the tent for our first humid night camping .
It wouldn ’ t be the squirrels nor the noises of the forest that attracted our attention but the license plate of the van occupying the pitch adjacent to ours . Elly and Wolf were lively Austrian pensioners who had decided to spend a year wandering around the North American
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