Saturday, July 15, 2006

Quebec City - The Paris of Nth America


We have just spent the last couple of days in Quebec City. We have been lucky that it has been the festival season while we have been here, and we've seen lots of busking and free shows all around the city every evening. Added to this it is a beautiful place and has been very hot. We have basically walked everywhere there is to walk, including the City Walls, Upper Town, Battlefields Park, The Plains of Abraham (where the British defeated the French), also the Lower Town, which it's narrow streets, pretty shops and huge murals on the sides of the buildings.
Yesterday we took a tour out to Isle de Orleans, Montmorency Falls, these were pretty impressive, one and half times higher than Niagara, although not as wide. Wegot to walk across the top of them over a bridge. We also stopped at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre Church (She is Jesus' grandmother, Mary's mother), inside the church they have a real religious relic of the hand of Sainte Anne, dedicated by the Vatican.
Today we catch th train down to Montreal.

1 Comments:

Blogger Lou said...

I loved Quebec when I was there too!! Hows the french going? Glad to hear you are having a good time. Lou

7:14 PM  

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