After some breakfast confusion we headed over to the information centre to join our morning walking tour. The tour was excellent and took us through the upper town and the lower town – both cute places with lots of photo opportunities. It was a bit rainy this morning, and felt quite cold which was a bit of a shock after the early 30C of the last few days.
After the tour we did some wanderings, including trying to find the place to recreate a picture from one of Jane’s school books which shows a person walking with the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac (the giant hotel built in the late 1800s as a hotel to give the city some tourist attraction). This involved a bit of wandering around to find something approximating the cartoon depiction in the book. The person in the book also meets the police and handily there was a police car nearby …
Fun fact 1 – Winston Churchill and Roosevelt met in the Chateau and agreed to do the D-Day landings.
Fun fact 2 – the pope visited Quebec and allows the church to have a special holy door. Apparenty there are only 5 of these special doors in the world and Quebec has the only one outside of Europe. The doors can be used for one year every 25 years, but Quebec has special Popey permission to use it this year (jane and i can’t remember why, but we were toold) and it’ll also be open next year to coordinate with the other doors’ 25 year opening. They are expecting a lot of pilgramage type people this year because of the special door. Jane and i both went through it (see video)
On the way up to the citadel walls we spotted a couple of wild beavers on the grass area!
We did some more wanderings, had a snooze, then headed back out this evening as the sun had come out a bit for some final wanderings – and some food on a bench overlooking the river. On the way back top the hotel Jane bought a beaver tail to eat (no beavers were harmed in the making of the beaver tail)
