Quebec City Day 2 | One Day at a Time

Continued from Quebec City Day 1.

This is the type of weather we are dealing with during our 4 days here in Quebec City. It’s actually warmed up some this week, as it’s not freezing. A few weeks ago, the temperature was in the minuses. Eek.

Another overcast cloudy day. We slept in, and we slept in some more. It was nice to just lounge around in bed.

First order of business is to walk down to Lower Town and find some coffee.

These stairs will lead us down to Lower Town from Uppertown where the Chateau Frontenac is at.

Did not expect to see this here. This feels like New Orleans levels of crude and tourist trap.

Quartier Petit Champlain. This is the most picturesque part of old Quebec City. It’s actually quite small, like much smaller than both of us had expected. Only like 2 street or 3 short streets small.

Coffee here.

Cute shop, rude barista. She served the French speaking customer/friend who ordered after us first. And was generally very unfriendly and scuffed at us not knowing how to speak French. Because you know, I’m sure she’s traveled everywhere before and been to other parts of the world where she always spoke their language. Bitch. We figured we’d run into someone like this here in Quebec, let’s hope she’s the exception and not the rule. Thankfully, this rude barista was the only rude person we met this entire trip. Québécois aren’t rude, only she was rude.

Very sleepy, nothing much was open and not many people here right now.

Lots of tourist trap shops down here, a little disappointing. But we come to find out it’s also a cruise port, so now makes a little bit more sense.

Nice mural.

Go ahead Canada, pretend like the native Americans were happy you came by and killed them like all the other Europeans.

The Chateau really dominates this whole landscape here. Such a cool building.

Hot water from hose spraying and melting snow.

We don’t have much planned here in Quebec City, so we might as well just sit on a park bench and enjoy our coffee.

Grocery store to stock up for our hotel fridge.

AAAAhhhh yes. One of my favorite brewery ever. All these special brews that I can’t find in the US. We ended up a couple 4packs, we won’t be able to finish them in time, but it’ll be awesome to try some. Surprisingly, I was unable to find any Unibroue beers at any of the restaurants/bars this whole trip. I was hoping I could get some of that sweet nectar on draft here.

What’s this odd one off stone? Almost looks like a headstone.

Our room is the left two of the 3 windows right below the roof of that tower.

Lots of people showing up today at the hotel. Last night when we showed up late, it was basically empty. It’s bustling today.

I’ve got a video call meeting at noon, but also on vacation…I’ll have a little bit of this before my meeting. So good.

Meeting done, now lunch time. Since Old Town is so small, everything that we want to go to is just a short walk away.

Lunch spot.

You walk in and there’s immediately a little sink for you to wash your hands. Hah.

Quebecois food.

Nice. Lot’s of comfort food and meat pie choices. The red sauce is what they call ketchup, it’s a fruit ketchup but doesn’t contain tomatoes. We’ve learned very quickly that the Quebecois love their sugar. Every food item is sweet in some way. I guess this is what happens when this the region where maple syrup was invented.

Maple pie…extremely sweet. After that extra sugary meal it’s time for a nap.

Nap time over, time to wake up and walk around our hotel, then after that go to dinner. They had displayed this super old guestbook in our hotel elevator vestibule.

Conference rooms in the lower levels.

Also a Starbucks in the lower level!

Woah, all chocolate.

A pre dinner drink at the hotel bar.

Well, sort of the hotel bar. The actual bar was under renovation and covered by the heavy curtains.

Both drinks were…very sweet. The Quebecois have some serious sweet tooth. And look at how big RL’s drink was! Just a giant bowl of sugar, she didn’t even finish it it was so sweet.