Another travel day to what is basically our final destination - Quebec City. We checked out of our hotel, left our luggage with the front desk and headed out for lunch. After lunch I asked a cab in front of the hotel if he could call in a second cab to fit all of us and he stood up and signalled a passing cab van, which for the first time this trip had six seat belts and room for our luggage. Congratulations Ottawa cab companies! It ended up being just slightly cheaper than two cabs, due to the $10 surcharge for the van (on a $13 trip).
Our train left Ottawa for Montreal at 2:00pm, and there were only two other people in our train car, so it was a pretty easy trip. The car got about half full in Montreal and we arrived in Quebec a little late at around 8:00pm.
Sandra and I were last here in 2004, and all I remembered was that it was a wonderful combination of France and Canada. What I blocked out were the unbelievable hills you have to walk up, as the city is built on a huge cliff. Dragging all of the luggage and stroller up the hills taxed our strength, and the path I chose ended up taking a less steep path in one direction which meant a much more steep path in the other. At one point the path became steps and we had to pull all the luggage up in shifts.
We are staying in a renovated basement suite, which is quite beautiful. Tomorrow we'll head out - without our luggage - to explore the city a bit.
3 comments:
Yikes! Stairs and steep hills! Well, glad you'll be doing it w/out luggage. You guys must have lost weight after all the walking and sweating in the heat!
Hmm, wonder what you'll have blocked out from this trip in 10 years!
We would have lost weight, except for the ultra high calorie fast food we have to eat with the kids. And I know what I want to block out from this trip...
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