Around the World in as long as it takes.

The Overnight train from Halifax seemed to be a bit more of a challenge as we had to get off in a small station called Charny at 4:30 am. This never happened as the train was delayed (this will be a reoccurring theme we’d find out over the coming month) so, luckily in this case, we were gifted 2 more hours sleep.

We arrived at Charny and there were taxi's waiting for us. After a short spin into town we had a steep walk uphill to the Hotel we'd booked for the night (once again an Internet Special)

Quebec City is a Citadel City and is situated right on the top of a Natural Cliff Alongside the River.

It's a great place for a fortress and as a result the French and British had been arguing over the place for many a year. Luckily that all seems to have passed these days so we were welcomed to the Hotel (which was lovely) as oppo0sed to being slaughtered as invaders.

The city is beautiful with small cobble stoned streets running up and down and since we'd managed to get within the Old Walled section of the city everywhere around us seemed to be from the 17th century, apart from being clean and well kept which I'm sure the place wouldn't have been 200 years ago

We spent the remainder of the day walking around the city.

We walked past the Basilica towards Chareau Fontenac (the most famous Hotel in Quebec... for obvious reasons) down the Petit Champlain (which was full of tourists) so we escaped up the hill in a Funicular (similar to those on Scarborough beach)

We then walked along the Terrasse Dufferin Boardwalk with great views over the St Lawrence River.

We then popped to the Observatory to get a slightly more elevated view of the city being that it was on the 31st floor.

We then visited the Fort and then went back into town where we decided to pop into a little restaurant for tea.

The Walled City of Quebec City was a beautiful city and took us most of the day to explore most of it’s little treasures. It wasn’t expensive (In Canadian Terms) either and after a good feed (Snails and Caribou.. don’t think you can get a more French Canadian meal !)

We packed our rucksacks ready for the next journey on the train. We were up early in the morning and since it was downhill to the station the walk from the hotel was much easier.

We boarded the train and headed back to Toronto ….. De Ja Vu or what???