This year over the Canada Day long weekend, we ventured to Quebec City with my brothers.  Quebec City, while very touristy, is beautiful.  The city exudes 400 years of history.  This proved to be more history than some in our party needed but none-the-less we all enjoyed our foray into french-speaking Canada.

There were cobble-stoned streets and quaint old buildings.  At times you forgot that you were still in Canada.  The shopping area in the lower town, Quartier Petit Champlain, reminded me very much of shopping the Getreidegasse in Salzberg.

The old town in Quebec City is very steep and we climbed many many stairs over our few days there.  Here is a view from the Citadel (the military fortress built on the city's highest point).

As you can tell from the picture above, we had horrible weather. It rained our entire time there... but we only got caught out in a downpour once.   So in that respect, we were very lucky. 

On our last night, we ventured to the Old Port and took in the Moulin a Images or Image Mill.  The Image Mill is a projection produced by Robert Lepage and Ex Machina.  It is the largest projection ever done.  It uses grain elevators in the harbour as it's projection screen - giving it huge dimensions -- 600 feet wide by 30 meters high!  My pictures of it do not do it justice as we were too close and could not capture all of the screen area but I managed to find a video clip on youtube so take a look.

Overall, we had a good trip.  Our car ride home was LONG as we got caught in "cottage country" traffic -- everyone returning en mass back into the GTA. Ended up being a 12 hour day.  Needless to say, it was a tiring drive.

The entire set of pictures from the trip is up on flickr and can be found here.