Blogs from Québec City, Quebec, Canada, North America - page 14

We had a difficult day yesterday and an inauspicious start to our time here in Montréal, but fortunately everything turned out fine. Our last evening out in Québec City, Wednesday night, was spent at the Moulin à Images, or Image Mill. This is a pretty slick multimedia 3-D slideshow. What makes it special is that the slides are projected onto the massive grain silos north of downtown – 600 meters wide and 30 meters tall, and the spectators are facing the silos from across the Bassin Louise, a marina. The slideshow reveals the history of Québec from before European explorers to the present day. Like the Cirque du Soleil, it’s free. You just show up with your blanket and find a place to sit, and there are speakers along the marina that play the accompanying music. ... read more

Today was another long day of biking, but we have arrived in Quebec City, and are staying in the residences at the Universite Laval. Have you noticed a trend in our choices of accommodations? Like in Trois Rivieres, the residences here are really cheap (about $70 per night), but they are not nearly as nice, or as big. Actually, the room we're in seems to be a single residence room where they have added in an extra roll-out bed, but for the price and location, we're still happy with the choice. We even managed to fit our bikes in the room instead of using the special bike lock-up, though its a tight squeeze. This morning had a bit of a slow start. Trois Rivieres started to seem like Hotel California - you can check out any ... read more

In spite of the forecast calling for rain today, we decided to head down the St. Lawrence to the beautiful Chute Montmorency. Chute is French for fall (think: parachute), and these falls are higher than Niagara (the Quebecois won't let you not notice that...) but not as wide. The falls are on the Montmorency River, probably about a mile before it flows into the St. Lawrence. It is a lovely waterfall, and we climbed the stairs to the top, walked across the bridge that spans the top of the fall, and had a nice lunch at the Manoir Montmorency. I think our collective opinion was that while this waterfall was quite huge, it wasn't nearly as impressive as some we've seen in Yosemite. It was definitely worth visiting, and the mist at the bottom was so ... read more

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Geo: 46.8266, -71.3024 Up Saturday morning and out the door. We started at the Museum fo the Fort.It had a multi media show about the French and British battle for Quebec. In the 1770's. Btitain won. Then on to the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. This is an Anglican church in Quebec. While we were deciding what else to do, we noticed that the streets were blocked off near us. They were having a bicycle race today. We waited around for a while and soon here came about 150 riders powering up the hill. The did nine laps around old Quebec. We then walked to the Battlefield Park Discovery Museum. It had a show about the main battles for Quebec. On our walk back home we passed the old Quebec jail. They were having tours of ... read more