Blogs from Québec City, Quebec, Canada, North America - page 16

Today's plan was to be a real tourist and see a few of the famous sights in Quebec City. One of them is the Ice Hotel. The Ice Hotel is located just north of Quebec City. Each winter they build a new hotel made of ice and snow, changing the layout, number of rooms and artwork in the ice and snow. Each spring the Ice Hotel melts and disappears. The cost of construction is about $3 million. It is approximately 35,000 sft. There are 36 suites and rooms in the hotel. The suites have different themes based on the artwork inside them. The artwork in the ice and in he snow walls is pretty amazing. I guess people actually stay here overnight, but there is no heat so I'm guessing they are pretty bundled up when ... read more

Tomorrow I depart for my snowmobile tour of Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula. I'll be going on a professionally guided tour with a company called Bonvoyage Snow Adventures, run by Gary Pruitt. I will be trailering my sled trailer with the Old Burban 990 miles to Quebec City over the next 2 days. I will ride my sled alone from there to the town of Riviere du Loup in the Gaspe Peninsula south of the St. Lawrence Seaway. That will be our starting point for the tour. We will ride the perimeter of the peninsula north of Maine and New Brunswick. Riding approximately 1,200 miles in 6 days. This is my first ever visit to Quebec and I plan to see the old Quebec City before I start the riding. It looks like it will be a new ... read more

We flew into Montreal and took the train to Quebec City. It was a few days prior to Christmas and the area was blanketed with snow. We had planned on spending Christmas and New Years with family members, both from Quebec and the states, so we rented a large two bedroom apartment off of Rue Ste-Jean. Temperatures dropped and climbed, however they hovered at several degrees below zero Celsius and sometimes made it to the zero mark and above. Quebec City is a cold place in winter. At the end of December, family members left for the states so we moved to another smaller apartment with one bedroom. We watched as the weather played havoc with airline schedules in the northeast part of the U.S. It even snowed in parts of the southeast where it doesn't ... read more

In one short month, I will begin my three month journey around India. Excitement doesn't begin to cover the range of emotions I am experiencing at the moment in regards to this trip. There are so many fears, so many expectations and more hopes than I've ever dared have at any given moment, all bundled together in a nice little package by the door in the bedroom. It's full-blown winter in Quebec City - the wind bites the skin you are foolish enough to leave exposed, the snow blinds you with it's onslaught and impedes your every step with its ankle-deep mass of slushy muck. All in all, it's a mess. But it's a mess I will miss quite a lot I think. I laugh and tease my friends and co-workers about being in Goa in ... read more

Bonjour à vous tous, Dans 8 jours, je serai en direction de Montréal pour prendre l'avion pour Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Je serai au Mexique pendant 29 jours. J'ai bien hâte! Au programme: soleil, farniente, lecture, promenades et photographie. Pas bien compliqué. J'ai décidé d'écrire sur un blog question d'y mettre des photos et de vous faire part de mes réflexions. Je n'ai vraiment pas l'intention d'écrire à tous les jours alors soyez rassurés. ;-) Et peut-être que je laisserai faire complètement si c'est trop complexe. Vous pourrez m'écrire des commentaires suite à mes blogs, si ça vous tente. Ça me ferait plaisir de vous lire. Vous n'avez qu'à descendre complètement en bas du message et vous verrez une boîte. Cliquer sur "View full text" si nous ne voyez pas la boîte pour "Comments". Et vous pouvez ... read more