Blogs from Québec City, Quebec, Canada, North America - page 31

The train journey continues... 00:26 Lights have come back on. French speaking New Brunswick woman that I starting chatting with earlier won't shut up now! She's singing! It's past midnight lady! 02:00 Rolling! Hey is the old guy across fro me sleeping on the floor? 03:57 I have no idea where we just stopped. Riviere-du-loop. Kilometre 907 is my guess. 02:32...that's the time we were supposed to have arrived here. 06:48 Charnay in 15! Kilometre 1099! 07:03 Train is backing up to change tracks. 07:15 Leave the train. I walk towards the station to find my bag. I meet two Swiss women and we head to the shuttle. 07:23 I see L'Ocean take off. I'm sitting in the shuttle bus that will take me to Quebec City. 08:30 Checked into my hostel after a short trek...uphill! ... read more

We depart this morning for Québec City, up in Québec, Canada. It was an early start again, which with these tours is pretty much the norm. Our first stop was at a service station at Kennebunk, Maine. I was next to Alex today. She was nice. She was from Hamburg, Germany, and was a really pleasant girl. Once we were back on the road again, and still travelling through Maine, Jordan put on a film. It was 'Good Will Hunting', which was mostly filmed in and around the state of Maine. I'd seen it before, but it was still a good film. We stopped for lunch before it had finished, at Skowhegan. I got a lovely roast beef roll for my lunch, and others got their lunch also. A number of us went and sat on ... read more

Hey all, So we are trekkin around at the moment. We crossed Canada, at least 5000k's in 2 and a half days. Fun huh? All this on a Greyhound bus.......... So Canada is a lot like Australia, lots and lots of flat, flat, flat farmland. The biggest difference is the colour. It is all so green out here, green, water and swamp. On the bus we went past a Bison reserve and I saw a herd of wild bison, Bec was asleep. We stayed at a really hippie hostel last night. Groovy man (but how do you say that in French?) We are in Quebec at the moment. All the roads signs and tourist info and everything is in French. In the rest of Canada everything is bilingual - but not in Quebec, only french here. ... read more

Well hello from Canada!! We are currently in Toronto, started out by headed up the New England Coast through Connecticut and Maine where we stopped for lunch. Nat and I made a salad in the grocery store in an effort to be good! Before we knew it we were at the boarder where we did some duty free shopping and had our passports checked - they pulled a few of the dodge looking characters aside for more questioning before they let them through, fortunately I was not one of them!! We then continued through to Quebec City, Canada’s French speaking province. Nat and I slept a lot along the way but when I was awake I saw how beautiful the scenery was, it was as I had expected, bubbling rivers with nice houses set at the ... read more

Vieux-Quebec ("Old Town") is a U.N.E.S.CO. world heritage site. Quebec City is the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist. "Kebec" is the Algonquin (aboriginal NE Canadians) word for "where the river narrows". French explorer Jacques Cartier built a fort here in 1535, and then returned to France. Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608... read more