Quebec City

Quebec is a wild and old place. There's more history here than almost anywhere in Canada, the possible exceptions being l'anse aux meadows or anywhere of aboriginal significance. Let's say European history. This is where the English finally defeated the French, where they were smart enough to climb up a cliff and invade from a sneaky position, but stupid enough to still fight in lines like morons. In any case, I don't mean to disparage their valiant efforts, as they did forge my country. Either way, Quebec is a walled city, and a difficult one food wise. There are many great restaurants, especially very high level french cuisine. We aren't really into spending millions on a meal, so those are moot. They do have an amazing market directly on the waterfront, and a huge variety of small food producers in the surrounding area, particularly l'ile d'orleans and Kamouraska. We arrived late the first night and did a great deal of wandering. For the next couple days we didn't get to do near anything, because the rain was so bad we couldn't even cook for ourselves. Apparently we didn't pick the best time of year to visit the city. Though we didn't find much culinarily, sometimes it is nice to see the sights and feel like a regular tourist for two seconds. We played lots of frisbee in the Plains of Abraham, which get my vote for awesome park of the world. Honestly the couple of days in Quebec city were really just relaxing and getting geared up for the final leg of the trip, because the weather was horrible and we did relatively little in the way of culinary exploration. Instead, we did research into the surrounding area and hugn around a bit. One night we played pool in a random basement songhouse, which was a little bit of Quebec tradition thrown into the mix. It's a beautiful city, with great sweeping vistas all around and a lot of historical happenings. I like it a lot there.