Wednesday – From Hot Montreal to Cold Quebec

Dinner Tuesday night was in the Marina Grand Dining Room.  We shared a table with a couple from Vancouver.  Elaine had chicken tangine and I had beef tenderloin.

After beach weather in Montreal (mid-80’s), today (Wednesday) was, as Warren Harding would have said, a return to normalcy (mid-50’s).  And it was overcast and windy.

We docked in Quebec City before 7 AM; we were off to explore by 9:00 AM or so.  We walked around the Place Royale for awhile taking pictures of this historic section of Old Quebec.  There are a couple of exceptional wall murals, a pretty church (Notre Dame des Victoires), and quaint old streets.  Then we took the Funicular to the upper town which terminates right at the historic Chateau Frontenac.  A lot of years ago we stayed there for three nights on one of our road trips.

Outside the Chateau Frontenac we boarded the Quebec Hop-On Hop-off (HOHO) bus and rode the 90-minute circuit.  We sat on the open-air second deck and shivered through most of the trip.  The guide was fun, and we enjoyed it.  At the end we went into the Chateau Frontenac to have a look around but mainly to get warm.

Then we re-boarded the HOHO base to ride to the first scheduled stop which just happened to be near MEC (Mountain Equipment Co-op) to buy a new pair of binoculars for Elaine.  She forgot hers, but she needed a new pair anyway.  She is now the proud owner of a yellow set of Nikon Aculon binoculars.

From there we walked back to the ship, stopping for pictures of bridge support murals, the railroad station, and the poetic chairs.

Pictures tell the story (click on pics to enlarge in a separate window)