Wednesday 10 June 2015

Day 4 - day off in Quebec City

Today was a lay over day in Quebec City staying at Le Château de Frontenac, apparently, the worlds most photographed hotel, built at the end of the 19th century it is quite a site to behold sitting proudly on the banks of the St Lawrence river. 
After a leisurely breakfast Peter joined others in the car park to do a few routine jobs on the car and I went in search of monster masks with Oli Hunt for a monster party planned I n a few days time! Not really what I had planned for our first day off!!!! 


The flag of Quebec 

Any way masks purchased we meet back up with the boys at the hotel and then decided a bit of exercise was required so took a long walk around the walled city before finding a nice place for a bite of late lunch. Having thought we had found the perfect place, a nice little bistro with out side seating just off the main square with a man playing some great music on his guitar we sat down and ordered our food only to find that within a matter of moment that we were in the middle of a work site! builders returned from their lunch break and set to work with Jack hammers and stone cutters! drowning out the guitar player and making it very challenging to have a form of conversation - thankfully the work did not continue for too long and the music resumed and the bells from the church rang in the back ground - once again we could relax and enjoy the company and our meal.

Young people walk the streets as corpses telling tales of days gone by and the crimes they had committed!!!

The old city was teaming with young people and tourists - I guess the end of the summer term here so lots of school trips with groups of children following their teachers in a convoy and coaches dropping of tourists in key places of interest around the city, the place was buzzing with activity.

A free evening with no rally dinner planned so a group of us got together and booked a really nice resturant - le Quai 19 - great company and a fun evening was enjoyed by all.

 

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