Feel like you’re on vacation even on weeknights!

I’m lucky enough to live just off Chemin Vire-Crêpes in Saint-Nicolas, in the western part of Lévis. This road is home to a number of agricultural producers known as Chemin de la Fraîcheur. One business the whole family is particularly fond of is Les Bleuets du Vire-Crêpes. We can go there to eat delicious breakfasts in their café, to buy all sorts of beautiful blueberry products in their boutique, but we most often end the day with a good ice cream.

I’ll always remember our first end-of-day ice cream at this place. Often, on beautiful summer evenings, my parents would call and ask if we wanted to go somewhere for ice cream for dessert. One evening a few years ago (it was 2015 I remember, Flavie wasn’t even a year old), they suggested we try the new Bleuets cremerie at Vire-Crêpes. Go, let’s go! Once there, I immediately felt like I was on vacation, even though it was the middle of the week. I felt like I was completely away from home, as if I were finishing my day in peace, away from the daily grind.

Not only is the site magnificent, but another factor that takes a lot of stress off parents is the vastness of the estate at the back, far from parking lots and cars. Ice cream, coffee or dessert in hand, adults chat quietly while the kids race back and forth across the fields, burning off what energy they have left for bedtime.