Thursday, September 27, 2007

Quebec City

First there a ton of photos but I just couldn't narrow it down.

Phil and I had a great time touring around the city. We did all the traditional things. Touring museums, eating fine food, a little lamour. I definitely enjoyed our visit.
Day one Phil was pretty tired after flying all night so we kept it low key. Wandering around enjoying the sites without actually getting too in depth.

We stopped for a coffee and this was looking up one of the streets

Enjoying the architecture.


We had dinner here one night it was my favorite meal but it was "A little too froo, froo." for Phil. it was kind of funny Phil says three words in french and they start talking away in french to him. He stopped them and said, "Anglais." "But sir you speak with no accent, tres bien." This happened more than once. With me they just reply immediately in English. Ouch.
night lights


This fountain was actually just installed. it looked like it had been here forever. A local business man found it at flea market in France picked it up for a song and then paid several million dollars to have it shipped and installed in front of the Parliament buildings. It is his gift to the city for the four hundredth anniversary next year.


The next day we took a guided tour our guides name was Jacques. he was great very informative without sugar coating, or getting into fables.



The night life was pretty low key but Phil and I found a little hole in the wall that we quite enjoyed.

It was literally a hole in the wall. The roof was only about 7 ft tall. You can see behind the the bar sign the bed rock. They had a guy playing guitar doing a-sing-along it was a lot of fun.

It was lit up with candles. My sister used to work at a bar and she used to tell us about ugly lights. Where last call comes and you throw the lights on and you see how ugly everyone actually is. Here they slowly began blowing all the candles out. Phil thinks the French have it right.Looking down the barrel of a cannon at the Citadal.

Street preformers during dinner one night. Dinner and a show.

And the favorite thing I saw in Quebec.

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