Quebec City

Judy on October 16th, 2011

In Canada, it’s darker at this time of year. There are fewer waking hours and dusk and darkness are often inhabited by unexplained events and ghostly phenomena. We are not a superstitious people, not susceptable to assumptions of supernatural causation. But facts are facts, and we are a curious bunch. So every year at about [...]

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Judy on August 30th, 2011

 It  started with  @whygocanada tweet. Julie Ovenell Carter is a well known Canadian travel writer and she tweets for WhyGoCanada.com, a Canada travel source.  Julie’s tweet read: “My favourite food souvenir from Canada? Hawkins Cheezies of course! What’s yours?…” I discovered one on a road trip to Quebec last year. We were with Carole and [...]

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Judy on January 27th, 2010

Late January update: Le Massif has a 330cm base, powder and groomed ski conditions is the latest report. If you are headed to Quebec for Bonhomme Carnivale, this is a great side trip! What do Le Massif (french for “The Massive”) and the Cirque du Soleil have in common? Le Massif, a ski hill east [...]

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Judy on January 7th, 2010

In our recent Newfoundland post I talked about how our travels across Canada always have a bit of synchronicity. We meet people who know other people we know or they are connected to the Canadian tourism industry like us. Canada is a huge country, the second largest in the world, but its population is small, [...]

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Judy on September 21st, 2009

I’ve been to Quebec City twice in recent years. Our summer trip was during Quebec’s 400th anniversary celebration in 2008. Lucky for us, we got to stay in the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac thanks to a big travel media/industry event taking place at the same time. Our room high up in the hotel had walls [...]

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