Undiscovered Journeys

Canada - St. Pierre and Miquelon

by Mike Levy

You have probably gathered that we at Go Your Own Way like oddities: and there are few places odder than St. Pierre and Miquelon. These small islands, in the middle of the St Lawrence seaway - still belong to France. They are fully French - ruled from Paris, use Euros and love pain au chocolat. A kind of forgotten bit of the former French Empire, it is very much a last outpost of colonialism. But has anyone been? What's it like to spend Euros in Canada and how French does it feel?

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