May 16, 2011

Québec, a taste of France

Québec is a cute city, with the Upper and the Lower city, the medieval styled walls,... It's not that I don't like it, it's just that it reminded me home way too much... When you walked in Old Québec it's exactly like walking in any historical centre of a city in France. I swear, it's the same.



We arrived on Saturday afternoon by bus with a company called Orléans Express. Strangely, it sounds familiar... it's where I come from! The best thing was WiFi in the bus, but I was almost sleeping...
After the check-in at the hostel, we went for a walk and concluded quickly that it is small. In one or two hours you have time to walk around the whole old city.
At this time of the year it's very quiet - only old people everywhere - and the weather was so bad, cold, rainy, windy,... After the sunburns in Ottawa, it was really weird.
And I think you can enjoy the city better when the weather is sunny because it's all about landscapes and views of the city and the St. Lawrence river, which looks very dirty when it's cloudy.



On Sunday, the same. We wandered around, a bit more and with an other itinerary, and we did a bit of exercise because of the stairs everywhere in the city.
And even the food has a French taste... There are almost only French restaurant in Old Québec and you can find snails, foie gras and duck very easily. Honestly it was very good (and kinda fancy) and really French, not a "North American - French" taste.





Anyway it's a nice place, but it's not what I'm looking for in Canada!

1 comment:

  1. Will you make it to Montreal? Before the weather gets too warm, I'd recommend checking out chef Martin Picard's Pied de Cochon - you'll find foie gras in abundance there, but with a decidedly québécois twist. Foie gras like you've never seen it before!

    Website: http://www.restaurantaupieddecochon.ca/

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