I have spent the last 10 days or so in Sherbrooke which is about 147km's east of Montreal. I stayed here with hosts who run a Nursery.My work was mainly working in the greenhouses of which there are five, weeding and tidying up as their season has just about come to an end.
Although Sherbrooke is just another town really and the tourist guide books dont necessarily rate it, I did manage to experience some of the delights of the area and country folks lifestyle which was rather interesting.
One of the evenings we went to Quebec's longest running english language theatre called The Piggery we had a nice meal here which was followed by great entertainment consisting of Bluegrass music, which was a completely new experience for me. Its kind of like Country music, but faster, better and much more fun.
Another day we went to eat out in North Hately which is an anglophone bastion with boutiques
selling Lipton teas, tweeds and aran jumpers - the restaurant we ate at was actually Belgian cuisine and marvelous to say the least. On the same day we spent some time at the Sherbrooke station market, where you could buy fruit and vegetables, jewellery and plants and a band was doing their thing!Living with the Nevilles in Sherbrooke was quite an experience, extremely kind hearted people who live alot from the land, which of course, doing veggies and such like is fine, slaughtering chickens and catching fish for tea was abit too much for me, poor city girl that i am.
On my last night with Cathy and Chuck before returning to Montreal we had a lovely dinner at the Vietnamese restaurant, I believe one of the best restaurants in Sherbrooke, I am so blessed to be so totally spoilt, no doubt! Thanks guys for a great time! See more pics here: http://picasaweb.google.com/sbramhall/Sherbrooke#
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