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There are pictures and they look fabulous, but I've been too lazy to scan some of them so you can watch. You'll have to do with another little story – about Trois-Rivières this time.

A very important part of our Canadian journey has come to its conclusion in Trois-Rivières: our quest in search of a decent cup of coffee. In this quest we braved mind boglingly bad filtre coffee that's been steaming on the stove for hours and still tastes like tap water with a little taste added and stomach turning caffe lattes that are mainly made up of milk instead of coffee. After all the crap I'd been drinking I had the most lovely, tongue caressing cup of coffee almost at the end of our three weeks – and found it in a provincial nest. Whenever you're in Trois-Rivières head to Le Torrefacteur and order, not a regular coffee, but an espresso or a café au lait (if you – like me – like your coffee with milk) and pay the $0,75 extra to choose your beans. I went for the 100% pure arabica, a mild coffee I drink at home, and my cup was delicious. Hmm, really, I almost ordered a second one. Which I didn't do, but instead I went back the following day to drink some more real coffee before I braved the airplane food again.

P.S.: What's this thing with skimmed milk and cream? What's the difference? I tried them both and my cup of coffee still tasted the same: shite.