Quebec City, Canada Travel Blogs

French Canadians
Dec 26, 2003

Everything is in French, menus, roads signs, everything!

Bonjour! It's Quebec!
Jun 1, 2008

... computer we've had to burn to disc and delete photo's from our hard drive. More photo's will be added later.* Leah says: Quebec City was just as gorgeous as I remember. It is a very quaint very French city with beautiful buildings and sections of cobbled ...

Quebec City
May 27, 2005 (1 photos)

... and the bus driver was French speaking with only halting English. The Province of Quebec stands alone in its complete "Frenchness". Quebec City is the only walled city still in existence in North America/Canada. Narrow, hilly streets with tall French style ...

Creative Quebec City
Sep 20, 2008 (48 photos)

... with finely dressed people and bistros and cafes spilling over onto the pavement. We felt right at home in this welcoming city! Quebec City, celebrating its 400th birthday this year, is the only city with city walls north of Mexico City and it is not ...

Quebec City
May 17, 2008

... later a tipsy Michelle texted to say she was esconsed in first class and being plied with free food and alchohol! A days wandering around Quebec City has left Michelle and I rather red faced! Not used to the sun it snuck us and left us hoping for a ...

Old France and its god damned tourists!
Sep 5, 2006 (18 photos)

... at a roadside picnic area. Nowhere near as nice as the BC ones but had picnic benches so amy was happy....... On to Quebec City....... finally got there to be confronted with two problems....... One, my gas light was flashing at me and god knows where ...

day six
Jul 6, 2008

... the festival, so we couldn't get the bus we originally planned to get. This left about ten of us sprinting round the streets of Québec, searching for some way home. Luckily we came upon a taxi, and half of us got it (the boys chivalrously allowed all of the ...

Walking, freezing and BONHOMME!
Feb 12, 2008 (10 photos)

... grade 3 "Let's Learn French" text book at age nine and decided that if only one day, JUST FOR ONE DAY, I could go to Quebec City and play in the snow at Carnaval with Bonhomme, my life would be complete. Finally, my childhood dream would come true. Little ...

A land where soft drinks come in 591ml bottles
Jul 9, 2009 (6 photos)

... you something to read whilst at work. Last time I was in Halifax and it was Canada Day. I discovered that Canada is younger than New Zealand. Quebec city was established in 1608 - I know, I know, very young relative to Europe and Asia, but still bloody ...

Quebec = K-bec = not a tourist
Jul 8, 2009 (7 photos)

... to have a great time hanging out, but I love it when I hear diffrent languages I don't have to comprehend.   Quebec is a wonderful city. The old town area is a bit touristy but absolutly beautiful. It looks like an old, European town, and I hit ...

day 22
Jul 22, 2008

... time we went to the musee des beaux arts. This was really interesting, we saw several exhibitions - one on general quebec art, one with riopelle (a famous quebecker artist) and an exhibition of inuit art (which is apparently a recent phenomenon). These ...

day 18
Jul 17, 2008

... we just listened to the rest of the presentations about names that hadn't yet been done. Again these were interesting, because Canada is a relatively new civilisation most people's great Grandparents were some sort of immigrant, and that leads to lots of ...

Quebec City
Jun 10, 2005 (5 photos)

A short 3 day visit to Quebec City. The city is quite beautiful, as are the nearby falls and church.

Départ de Québec en autobus
Oct 3, 2007

Le petit départ

Boredom and l'Agitee
Feb 15, 2008 (14 photos)

... buildings. So, I went over there and took what was about a half hour tour with two Americans who thought Quebec City was the capital of Canada. Kinda boring. Then, I went back to the Observatoire and watched the sun go down from the very top of the ...

Upper and Lower Towns/Quebec City
Oct 11, 2007

... all things Quebec.  There we struggled to understand the political and social forces the cause the tension between Quebec-ers and the rest of Canada.  Didn't really get a handle on it and almost got locked in the exhibit.  A wooden gate, ...

Journey there
Jul 1, 2008

... room isn't bad and neither are the bathrooms. It'll be strange to live here for a month though! We missed the trip to old Québec and, unfortunately, the only evening where you could speak any language you wanted - from now in it's french all the way... !

25 days before
May 8, 2008

Je vais voir si je suis capable de tenir à jour un "social network application" durant mon voyage. Héhéhé! Vous pourrez ainsi voyager avec nous. En image et en mots. 25 jours avant: l'excitation se fait sentir. Ce voyage longtemps rêvé est sur le ...

Night time in Quebec
Jul 29, 2008 (5 photos)

We are relaxing in the most gorgeous room we've had so far, in the Hotel Port-Royal in Quebec City. Yes, we are paying over $200 for it but it well worth it. We are in the old city, and we found this after driving around the city for awhile. To be walking ...

Montreal to Quebec City
May 29, 2006 (1 photos)

Today I was up at 8.30am and got ready to catch a bus to Quebec City where I would stay for one night. I caught the Metro to the bus terminal and had some breakfast before getting on the 11am bus. Once in Quebec City, I had to make use of my little ...

day 19
Jul 19, 2008

Today we had a fun lesson again, we had an extended game of loup-garou - this time with all of the characters possible involved. It made it much more fun, and one game took us one whole hour! We are thinking of buying Julie, our teacher, the extension ...

day 14
Jul 14, 2008

... game 'spit', if that helps anyone. Anyway, it was very intense and great fun! After this we got ready to go into vieux Québec. Unfortunately our plans were a bit sketchy again and two of our group of four left without me and Carys, and the rest of our big ...

day 17
Jul 16, 2008

... bad, and I decided to do that instead of rafting, because you can do rafting anywhere in the world, and I may never return to Canada. I got my place on the trip. Unfortunately Carys was going to sign up for rafting but the queue was too big and the trip ...

day 20 - whales ahoy!
Jul 20, 2008

Today there was no time to get a bit more sleep. We had to be on the bus at 8h, to drive to the boat that would take us whale watching! We had to travel for a long time - again about three hours. On the journey, one thing I noticed about the houses here ...

Bonjour
Aug 17, 2004 (4 photos)

... (or so I would think from my limited Irish experience). Everthing is written and spoken in French. We've used hand gestures. Old Quebec is a cluster of restaurants, old hotels, and lots of shops, wound up on a little hill and walled in with a fort (to ...

Quebec City
Aug 11, 2008 (5 photos)

... started raining when we got there and we walked through the rain-soaked streets as it got dark. The highlight of our Quebec City trip, other than of course the picturesque cobbled streets, artists and many cafes was the bike ride from our camp site ...

Taking the night ferry to Old Quebec.
Aug 5, 2009 (6 photos)

... Montreal until about 2 PM due to having to finish helping set up Rhéline's apartment. During the drive Alexis called a friend in Quebec City. Last spring her school did an exchange with a school there and she had made a friend. Unfortunately that friend had ...

Quebec Winter Festival
Feb 15, 2004

Catching the bus from Toronto with Natasha, we arrived cold and in a blizzard. We are staying in a B&B and we headed out to the Hotel Glace (ice hotel). What an amazing place. Everything is made of ice, including the glasses that we sipped vodka from. ...

day 7
Jul 8, 2008

... reality now it seems. While we were at the park I stayed with Carys, Chelsea and Heather. We had races in teams; Canada vs. England. I think England won, but I'm not entirely sure. After having spent an entire day in the sun, and effectively washing ...

Wandering in Quebec
Jul 30, 2008 (5 photos)

... various shops. After a pleasant dinner at the Cafe De Paris we returned to our hotel room. We have enjoyed Quebec immensely. The French influence makes it more interesting, especially in regards to food and the conservation of the historical areas is ...