Battlefields Park (Parc des Champs-de-Bataille) Quebec City

after surviving the quebec roads, quebec drivers, and a flash torrential rain, i made it to the old city of quebec and checked into my room at the chateau frontenac.
revved with the stoppage of the rain and my first visit to vieux quebec sans copine, my and my camera went to town. unfortunately scaffolding tarnished parts of my pics of the big …

... interesting history.  With many of our questions about Quebec's French origins answered we headed outside to take a look around Battlefields Park.  Just as we left the warmth of the visitors centre a blizzard swept across the icy fields causing ...

... and I reached the Battlefields National Park and citadel. Day two and I paid a visit to the Musee de Civilization, basically the Quebec City natural history museum, down in the old port area of the city.  Here they had a big exhibit on mummies ...

... the Martello Tower, one of 16 towers built by the British and valued for their ability to withstand naval artillery fire. Battlefields Park commemorates the major battles that took place here on the Plains of Abraham between British and French forces in ...

... , it was still a good day for strolling around town, starting with Le Parc des Champs de Bataille (Battlefields Park), a large green space just outside the city walls, which contains the famed Plains of Abraham.  During the lunch hour it was packed ...

... behind the hotel through a beautiful park for a little bit before going back to the restaurant. The park is part of the huge Battlefields Park which includes the Plains of Abraham. The part we were in was the Joan of Arc Garden which was quite pretty. ...

... which I was not tempted to buy anything.   I then bought a one day pass which, at the time, included tours of Battlefields Park, the Museum in the "Discovery Pavilion" (which used to be something military but I was not able to find out what), ...