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Here yoou can see some pictures from our visit in Québec City. Clicking on the thumbnails they will open another page with the full size image.

We have been visiting Québec - which in local lingo means Québec City, the provincial capital. If you think Montréal is a different country, you didn’t see Québec. Now I realize in Montréal you can find quite a number bilingual signs, most people who work in services can speak English, too… but In Québec - nothing. I couldn’t find one English sign or English text in the old city. Everything is only in French. Even America is French: see the picture.

Otherwise it was nice. The old city has its charme, or maybe we liked it because it reminds us of the old European cities: little narrow streets, old buildings, and the streets going up and down on the hill - a big joy after the plainness of the Prairies. From the top of the hill we spotted a little restaurant with bright yellow umbrellas, and we decided to have a rest there when going down. On our way we had fun with a “street picture” painted on a huge firewall and, finally, got a beer under the umbrellas. There wasn’t a real need for them because it was not too hot but windy and cool. Although they are prepared for that, too, offering blankets for the patrons.