Quebec City

Today our campground host took  4 couples to the ferry. He drove like a madman. We bought the tickets and boarded a ferry like I have never seen before. Spacious, looked brand new, smooth ride across the St. Lawrence to Quebec City.

We found our double decker tour bus, no seats inside so we had to sit on top outside. Much better for seeing things and taking pictures but the temp was in the high 40s with a 15mph wind. We froze. We had decided to ride the entire tour and then decide what to do. I did research yesterday and thought I knew until we encountered our bus ride. All we could think of was getting in to some warm building and defrosting. 

We decided visit the Farmers Market. Beautiful vegetables, meat, fish, sausages. We ordered a quesadilla to share for lunch(mainly because that was the only word we recognized). We ended up with pea soup, quesadilla, coleslaw and french fries. Weird. We have no idea what was in the quesadilla, cheese and other things. It was good though.

Back to the bus stop and where we wanted to go next. We had to be back at the ferry at 5PM for pick up by our campground host. Life became a bit difficult after this. Several of our stops weren’t available since the taxi drivers were protesting against Uber and had blocked several roads with their taxis. 

We learned lots of random things about Quebec and Canada. Quebec is almost 4 times the size of France. Canada is the 3rd largest country in the world in area. The b order between the US and Canada is the longest world border and it doesn’t need to be guarded. Canada as a whole has more fresh water lakes than the rest of the world. Quebec speaks French because when they made a treaty with England that was agreed upon. 

Quebec architecture is a composite of the old and ultra modern. I generally don't like this type of presentation. The buildings just don' blend at all. We went down one street with very quaint store fronts but ultra modern, rather ugly street lights. Horrible!!

We had thought about walking along the ramparts but with the weather being nasty that was not an option. We ended up going to one of the highest points in Quebec, La Chateau Frontenac. We wondered the street, found a coffee shop/pastry shop and had a snack. After some more wandering it was time to take the Funicular down to the ferry. That was a little something different.
Home we went on another immaculate, smooth ferry ride.