A couple of weeks ago I went to Quebec, Canada with my husband. This is a place my husband has been wanting to visit for years now. We finally got the chance to so we took it! Before we drove the 5 hours that it took us to get there, my husband kept telling me how much like France it would be. I thought cool I’ve been to France and loved the old world feel it had and the delicious food we ate. The funny thing is when we finally got to Quebec City it reminded me more of Edinburgh, Scotland than it did France, but that’s ok because I loved Edinburgh too.
Unfortunately for us, it rained just about the entire time we were in Quebec. I don’t mean a bit of rain here and there. That wouldn’t have been a big deal. We would have worn our rain jackets and our hoods. No, when I say it rained I mean it rained all day to the point that we used our jackets and our umbrella. Good thing we had one! Just so you know I’m not complaining about the rain, I’m simply letting you know that it put a slight damper on things. Overall we did have a good time in Quebec and we found some cute stores and had delicious food and wonderful espresso.
We did a lot of walking while we were in Quebec, in the rain. We found a sandwich shop that had croissants and espresso. We liked that place so much we went there two mornings in a row. We ate an authentic Canadian dinner at a restaurant that was down the block and across the street from our hotel. That was a seriously nice restaurant which is the oldest house in Quebec City. We found a crepe place that made good crepes and, yes, they had really good espresso too. We even found a gourmet popcorn place that had, yes very tasty popcorn.
We really wanted to go to a museum while we were in Quebec, but sadly it was closed on the only day we could go. So we did a lot of touristy stuff like going into A LOT of different stores. Yep, we gladly spent money in some of them too. I did love the fact that Quebec looked and felt a lot like Edinburgh, Scotland. Especially the one street that reminded me of Diagon-ally from the Harry Potter books. I would have loved to go into some museums or maybe have done a walking tour. Watching the changing of the guards would have been cool too. Sadly we didn’t have enough time. Between that and the pouring rain, it couldn’t happen. As my husband says “that’s ok that just gives us a reason to go back when the weather is nice.”
Kathleen Smith author of Miscarriages My Story, Brooklyn Raised Livin’ Upstate & Hey You Moments to Remember. Blogs about a variety of things. Has her own podcast Kathleen’s Korner and she is the CEO of BearsWithApps. OH, let’s not forget her YouTube channel