Today we were touring old Quebec by foot. We parked the car and took the ferry from Lévis to Quebec. It is a 10 minute ferry ride. Claudia holding our tickets.

The girls up top.

Approaching Quebec City.

Chateau Frontenac.

Walking around the lower town.

Fresque des Québécois on Côte de la Montagne. This mural recounts the story of Québec City, weaving in visual allusions to its unique architecture and fortifications, and its larger-than-life personalities.

We missed the New France Festival by a couple of days, they were removing all of these little stalls that were used the week.

Angela as a mate lot (sailor).

Claudia as a garçon.

Gillian as a L’habitant.

Looking up towards Chateau Frontenac.

We were over there by 9:30 and the crowds were still pretty good.

Angela standing next to a wall that was cut away. While we were standing there, a tour group went through and the guide said it was called a “Chicken ass” because the wall was cut away for the big wheels of buggies long ago. I couldn’t find any reference to it on the internet, maybe something was lost in translation.

A fur store.

The Breakneck Stairs, except for the lone guy sitting there it was empty.

Gillian, Susan and Claudia riding up the Funiculaire. Some form of the funiculaire has been in operation for 133 years.

Angela and I walked up the Breakneck Stairs and then up a road, followed by more stairs. I was taking pictures of Angela as we walked up the stairs.

Almost at the top.

Gillian and Claudia with the Bonhomme.

Looking north.

Angela and Claudia running up a hill.

The Saint Louis Gate into the old city.

The Wolfe Monument in the Plains of Abraham battlefield.

The monument marks the spot where Wolfe died.

Near the Musée National Des Beaux-Arts du Québec.

Angela and Claudia decided they were going to roll down the hill.

The most relaxing view on the Plains of Abraham. We took a nice break from walking under the shade of a tree.

The walls of the Citadel.

There were gaps in the wall that we had to leap over.

Looking back through the Saint Louis Gate.

They were doing some work on the roof of the Chateau Frontenac, the mesh they had up had a picture of the building.

A statue of Samuel de Champlain.

When we headed back down to the Lower Town, the crowds had increased from this morning.

The Place Royale

The Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Church, the oldest stone church in North America (1688).

After a long day of exploring Old Quebec, it was back on the ferry to Lévis. Tomorrow we are back on the road to Fredericton, a shorter drive, but we lose an hour when we cross timezones.