A full on day in Quebec City

Parking this morning by the river, we decided to go to our now favourite coffee shop and indulge in crepes! We drank lots of water and coffee and poured the maple syrup over our 3 crepes. They are delicious. I still haven’t tried the Canadian puteen yet, though I’ll try to before I leave Canada.

We wandered around the streets below the funicular and then up to the top. It was very hot and we kept in the shade listening to the buskers up there. 

We saw a beautiful mural covering a side of a building. It depicts the history to present day of Old Quebec. 

We wanted to see ….

“The scene of great battles and Canada’s first national historic park, the site includes the Plains of Abraham and Des Braves Park.”

So ….Next we attacked the wooden steps leading up to the park and plains of Abraham. It was quite a climb and the path lead all along the cliffside up and sometimes annoyingly down then up again eventually to the citadel. 

The views were stunning and there were First Nation coils and statues next to a well placed bandstand. 

The funny thing was that after a long rest we could not find a way down to the grassy bank below us and could only walk completely around the top of the citadel defences until we were able to descend safely. There were no signs to help find our way or even a map!

Back in the old city it was a bit cooler as the sky was cloud covered now but still a warm wind.

We had a long drink of tea and iced water at a Starbucks that is part of the hotel and pretended we were residents there. 

On returning down the funicular to the car it was only 4pm. 

We decided to to go to the top of the huge falls Montmorency falls we visited 2 days ago

The park at the top was lovely there was a different view of the top of the falls and you could walk across them on a wired wooden path but no way would we do that. It was sooo windy up there too.

So what a full on day 

We still have 3 more days here I’m pleased because I’m really enjoying Quebec