Quebec
Travel Blogs from Quebec, Canada
The Real Montreal
... end of the French leg of our Canadian journey, although Montreal doesn’t feel any less French than the supposedly more French Quebec. Everyone around the city speaks French all the time and it’s really quite surprising to hear such a language ...
Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello all...well we arrived safe and tired into Canada,after an 8 hour bus journey from Boston to Montreal. Amazing,considering its just a few inches on the map! Believe us,its one big country! The border crossing to Canada was fun! Was like the Spanish ...
Bonjour! It's Quebec!
... . It is a very quaint very French city with beautiful buildings and sections of cobbled streets. We spent a full day in Quebec wandering around. We looked at stalls selling artwork and craft. We wandered down to the excavation of the original palace ...
Timbits in Canada
... with my orchestra playing at the Midwest Clinic I am finally getting to rest a while in the snow covered landscapes of Canada. The fourteen hour drive up here yesterday was quite easy, sharing the driving with John and Elizabeth. I made one mistake ...
Montreal
... to explore the sights. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Montreal is a funny place, you are in the heart of Canada but everone speaks French. It was certainly a bit of a shock to us. We ...
ATOP PERMISSION HILL
Adam and I got driven into Perce, on the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, Canada. We were easily able to meet up with Johnny and Julie, who'd arrived a day before. It was a dreary-looking day, and it soon began to rain on us. Minutes before, a ...
QUEBECOIS SON FU!
... apartment buildings with Nichola at four in the morning, and we played hackey-sac on the stone roads. Man, I love Quebec. - Modern Oddyseus with Johnny, Adam, and Julie Thanks to Rosalyn; Mele; Jean; and Francine for the rides! Much ...
Happiest places in the world >> ASIA
... , the views are of carved temples and vivid prayer flags fluttering against a backdrop of snow-dusted mountains. #2. MONTRÉAL, CANADA If laughter is indeed the best medicine they should need fewer medics in Montréal. The Francophone capital of ...
Pardon, which way to Canada?
... rest of the walk was a great way to soak-up the vibrant Montreal ambiance. Our last stop in Montreal before departing for Quebec City was a fresh food market, the Atwater Marche where we stocked-up on some local produce such as fruit, vegetables, ...
Back to the source
Back to the source, to remember who I was when I left months ago. Refocus and spring back towards the South ...
Side trip to Montreal
I have a High School friend who lives in Montreal. Nick wanted me to stick around for an extra week in Kingston so that we could spend Thanksgiving together. So I went to visit Monique for a few days. She started her own business, EnergieNow ...
Lesson Learned...
Word of Advice: do not drink copious amount of alcohol before a long flight. I'm sure everyone knew that and I'm the only one stupid enough to do such a thing. I've never been happy to have a layover but I desperately needed to get off the plane to ...
Creative Quebec City
... 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 ...
ACADIA TO GASPE
... her dear Pierre's eyebrows. Ha! Julie. No. Julie was a tough chick. Not just any chick would hitchhike across Canada. After passing the night on the baseball field (a spiritual experience, if you ask me), we split our group again. ...
City of Comedy
Grew up with Montreal being synonymous with comedy, my older brother and I watching Just For Laughs late night on ...
DIANE EATS HER VEGETABLES
... romantic move, Julie and I found a field to nap in. Johnny and Adam met us an hour later, and they carried a Quebec provincial flag (blue-and-white, decorated with four royal-looking "flowers of Louis" irises) that someone had given them when they'd ...
Quebec City
... 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 ...
Montreal Madness
... day...(Trust me). Hello from Montreal, After getting off the train and working my way to the Hostel (one of the best in Canada) I decide to dump my gear (and shower) and check out what Montreal has on offer - running on adrenaline because have not ...
DRINKING ON A MONTREAL DOOR-STEP
... French-Canadian we were gonna miss. But, the long expanse that is Ontario was just dying to have us Canada-trekkers comet through. Ontario'snext! Later, French-Canadia. - Modern Oddyseus with Johnny, Adam, and Julie Thanks to ...
The requisite first entry
I'm nowhere, yet. Still at home, sitting at my desk, daydreaming about travel and trying to plan the zillion details that need to be taken care of before I can depart. At the moment I'm too lost in the details to be too excited, or apprehensive, or ...
Au revoir Montreal
... Canada. Canada truly is a diverse nation - although you can travel for an instant in Europe and be in a different country, in Canada you can cross wide expanses and still be here, as much as it feels like another world! We went and saw Powderfinger at ...
Birds Eye View of Perce Rock
This Pierced Rock is an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, just off the Gaspe peninsula. Its one of the largest and most spectacular arches in the world (kinda like hole in the wall South Africa from my previous TP). The lime stone arch is 1420 ft long, ...
Having spent a few weeks in the english ...
... would be especailly the CBD. This is because alot of businesses were driven out of Montreal when Quebec was trying to breakaway as an independent state from Canada. So most businesses headed off to Toronto - which is now the commercial capital of ...

