Day 6 – Quebec City

Today we had our official tour of Quebec City.

First we went down to the banks of the St Lawrence River and drove through the park that Canada’s federal government had given Quebec City for its 400th anniversary.

Then we drove up into the old city to have a look at it in daylight.  Didn’t look too different from the night before, however it was a little brighter.

Some of the landmarks we looked at were the town’s Fort, the Plains of Abraham (where the British beat out the french a few hundred years ago), and where Celine Dion had just held a free concert a few nights earlier.  If we understood the tour guide correctly, the Celine Dion concert was the most exciting thing to happen in recent history.  It was part of a free concert series that they have had on for the 400th anniversary – a few weeks ago Paul McCartney played as well.  Unfortunately no one was doing a concert the nights we were there (and really – you would have to pay both of us to go see Celine Dion!)

After that we went back to the hotel – Kerrina caught up on sleep and Paul went for a run.

For dinner we headed out to a local Italian Restaurant.  Unfortunately due to the fact we were in a french speaking town, we had to translate the French to Italian to English on the menu.  In the end we just ended up pointing at pictures and hoping for the best.