June 22 continued
After the tour we drive to St Anne De Beaupre passing the beautiful Montmorinay Falls. What an awesome church, the Basilica St-Anne-De- Beaupre (1923) . an ornate medieval-style basilica built in 1923 is the 5th to be built on the site where the sailors first touched ground. Inside the entrance stand two columns of crutches, testimony to the faith of generations of Roman Catholics, The interior is illuminated by 240 superb Neo-Roman stained glass windows. The interior has 22 chapels and 18 alters. Rows of thick columns divide the interior into five naves, and the dome-vaulted ceiling is decorated with mosaics portraying the life of Saint Anne. St Anne was the patron saint of shipwrecked sailors. This is a must see. We return to our Rv with thing for our memory bank thank goodness for cameras.
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Chateau Frontenac

A fun place to stroll Old town

Horse and carriage was $80 for 45min for 4 people. the walls total 4.6 k 3mi in length. 7 gates or portals penetrate the massive walls. because of cost and need of improvement 3 gates were torn down in 1880.

June 22 Monday Quebec City
Our friends Roy and Billie Helps invite us to accompany them into Quebec City. We stop at the visitors center first and get info on the Gaspe. We park in Old town (Vieux Quebec.) The streets are cobbled with quaint shops and restaurants on very narrow roads. Many bakeries and outdoor cafes. We pass Laval university next door to Notre Dam Basilica. Time for lunch. We decide on Cafe Buade on 31 rue de Buade. For $10.95 we get Canadian pea soup , a main item (I get a shrimp pizza). It also included desert and coffee. After lunch we take a bus tour. It takes us to the Citadel, parliament building, old port, city hall, and a short walk in Old town and much more . $74 for the two of us. While waiting for the bus we walk to the archeology site where the first fort was covered with sand. We go inside the Chateau Frontenac(1893) built in Medieval French style with numerous turrets and verdigris copper roofs. It has 600 rooms. We experience the European charm of the first French settlement . We visited history first hand . The tour was a perfect introduction to the city.

June 21 Sunday 2009 Fathers day -Ottawa to Quebec City
8: 30 68' (20) overcast We like to travel on a Sunday when we have to go through a big city, less traffic. 2 hours to Montreal and another 2 to Quebec City. We take hwy 417 to 40 then 25 and 20 exit 311 to another KOA. We arrive 2:30 - 68'(20 ) We drive 283mi -(456k) We have WIFI at our rig hurray. We pay $128 for 4 nights with our points. We meet another BC Rver and he was from Port Moody and knew our neighbor on Ebert street in Coquitlam. Small world. Both Sherri and Shannon phone.
A bit about Quebec We stay in Canada's oldest city. Quebec city is the capital of Quebec ,the heart of French Canadian nationalism. The city sits overlooking the St Laurence River. It is the only walled city North of Mexico. It can almost be divided by line into the old and the new. It was 1608 when Champlain established the city. The French city is English but in name only: in culture and tradition Quebec remains French. The stormy history of the city was besieged 6 times.
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