After visiting a bagel shop in Montreal, we left Montreal and headed to Quebec City.
We stopped at a Tim Horton’s and bought a maple glazed doughnut and some cafe au laits. We stopped at another IGA (grocery store). We didn’t make it to Quebec too fast as the speed limits seem pretty slow here. We arrived around 1 p.m. and drove to Old Quebec. We went to the Plains of Abraham also known as the Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War. The battle was fought between the British and the French with the British ultimately winning. We also went to the Citadelle. It is the oldest military building in Canada and one of only two cities in North America still surrounded by fortifications. During the American Revolutionary War, the United States tried twice to capture Quebec as it is an important port city, but it failed at both attempts. Churchhill, Roosevelt, and the Canadian Prime Minister met at the Citadelle during World War II.
Later, walked through Old Québec. It is a beautiful, small city. We went to the Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac. Wikipedia says, “overlooking the St. Lawrence River, this grand, castlelike hotel is a 3-minute walk from Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec and 8 minutes’ walk from boutiques in Quartier Petit Champlain”
For lunch, we had good bison burgers and classic poutine. We went down some stairs to a lower shopping street and found a shop that was making maple syrup taffy. It was the best 2 $CAN ever spent. It was cold taffy and melted as I ate it. Andrea doesn’t like sugar and she wanted one.
We went to see the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec which was in a square that looked so neat; it looked fake. It was great. I love Canadian cafe au laits and lattes. Andrea and I both got a latte and sat and watched people in the square. Afterwards, Dad went up on the Funicular and we drove to the hotel. Andrea and I walked to get some food from a really neat grocery store. I turned a corner and moved out of the way from a man who said, “Perdon. Merci Mademoiselle.”
(If you didn’t see pictures in the post from Montreal, there are pictures posted now.)