About That Quebec and Ottawa (June 1 - 7)

Dear Family and Friends,

Hello from Sudbury, Canada. This week found us dividing our time between Quebec and Ottawa, before arriving in Sudbury, Ontario.
We left Acadia National Park on Friday morning and drove north to Armstrong, where we crossed into Quebec Province. We stayed at a great campground outside of Quebec City.

 Our drive toward Canada was beautiful.

 Canadian customs

Bienvienue au Quebec

On Saturday morning, a city tour bus picked us up at our campground outside of Quebec City. Our guide, Francois, gave us a tour of old town Quebec and some of the newer areas of the city. We learned that Quebec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608. It is the only city in North America surrounded by walls, that are three miles in total. We truly felt that we were in a European city. It was fun to try our skills at speaking French.

 One of several entry gates into old Quebec.

 Part of the wall around the city.

 small, narrow streets

 Looking up to the Hotel Frontenac

 Roger poses across the St. Lawrence River from old Quebec.

Old Quebec

A beautiful tulip bed at the Joan of Arc park.

 Our final stop on the city tour was at the Plains of Abraham. It was here that a battle was fought between the British and French in the early eighteenth century.

A final shot of the St. Lawrence River from old Quebec.

On Sunday we took the Fiat to Parc de la Chute-Montmorency. The Montmorency Falls are 98 feet higher than Niagara Falls. We took a cable car up the mountain, then took the boardwalk along the cliff to the suspended bridge. There we were able to walk across the falls and view how they feed into the St. Lawrence River below. 

Roger boarding the cable car.

A view of Roger with the falls in the background taken from inside the cable car.

On the boardwalk to the suspension bridge.

 A shot of the top of the falls from the suspension bridge.

 A view of Quebec City behind Roger, from the other side of the suspension bridge.

 Quebec City

On Tuesday we said goodbye to Quebec City and headed to Ottawa, via Montreal. Our route took us on the Trans Canada Highway to Ottawa. We spent three nights in the municipal campground before heading to Sudbury, Onatario, on Friday. With very wet weather, we were unable to do many of the things that we had planned. Fortunately we were able to get a bike ride in on Thursday.

We plan to drive back into the States at Sault Ste. Marie on Friday.  We will continue on to Mackinaw City, Michigan, where we will join my brother and sister-in-law (Warren and Lea). Lea is from Michigan and will be our tour guide for the next week. Thank you for checking in with us.