Carlyle to Pierson: What TimB didn’t mention yesterday was that when we arrived in Carlyle and checked out the campsite we were attacked by the mosquitoes and both bitten 3 times in less than a minute so we escaped to the only motel in town. Being a Sunday the bar & restaurant were shut but this morning the restaurant was open and offering cooked breakfasts which was too good to pass on. So, after a leisurely breakfast, a visit to the shop for our daily supply of bananas and a visit to the bank for an injection of cash it was 11 o’clock before we were on our way. A short sharp shower as we left town made the day look fairly ominous but it stopped before I could get my rain jacket on and for the rest of the day we only saw showers at a distance. Yesterday had been hard work with head winds but today we were rewarded with a SW wind pushing us east swinging round to NW at midday just in time to blow us south from Redvers to Cairevale. The 46km from Redvers to Carievale were done mostly at around 35kph and even the 13km of roadworks didn’t slow us down significantly.
The last leg was 25km to Pierson taking us over the Sask border into Manitoba where we entered another time zone and advancing the clocks an hour meant we had arrived after six and were too late for the shops again. Fortunately, we were able to eat at the Heritage Café which seemed to be a meeting place for the locals. The waitress was very helpful and telephoned around to arrange for us to camp on the sports ground near the baseball diamond. When we went over there after dinner TimB was looking around the grounds for the toilets when too guys turned up in a pickup truck and showed me the ice rink arena and decided to leave it open for the night so that we could use the hot showers and toilets in there. All this is at no charge!!!!! I can’t imagine that happening in Europe.
Bob, the only sad bit was… not a beer in sight. And though all the cows came over to see us we really didn’t fancy warm milk.
The last leg was 25km to Pierson taking us over the Sask border into Manitoba where we entered another time zone and advancing the clocks an hour meant we had arrived after six and were too late for the shops again. Fortunately, we were able to eat at the Heritage Café which seemed to be a meeting place for the locals. The waitress was very helpful and telephoned around to arrange for us to camp on the sports ground near the baseball diamond. When we went over there after dinner TimB was looking around the grounds for the toilets when too guys turned up in a pickup truck and showed me the ice rink arena and decided to leave it open for the night so that we could use the hot showers and toilets in there. All this is at no charge!!!!! I can’t imagine that happening in Europe.
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