Day 9: Québec City

27 Jun

Final tour in Montréal – Québec City. Again, I joined Gray Line company for this tour, due to the different year brochure, we paid more than the price we saw on the brochure. The 1-day tour cost around $120CA with roughly 3 hour drive for one way.The tour we joined this time was with more people, like with no empty seats, and with the visitors from other countries too. The driver is old but still strong, he speaks French and English, but sometimes I had a hard time getting used to his accent and understanding him. However, we got a local docent with a super cute accent when we arrived in Québec City.

He likes to pronounced the words separately, something like: na-vi-ga-’tion, and put lots of emphasis on the last syllable. It’s super cute. We all loved our docent, this guy.

And, the Québec City, it’s fantastic. You wouldn’t feel like you were in the North American country, you would feel like that you were in the Europe, serious, you would. Moreover, believe me, every single photo you take is cute and pretty.

The docent brought this huge and simple umbrella to obtain our attentions, also to prevent from everyone getting lost. It worked, we could easily see where this guy was. He took us for a simple, quick tour of lower city then we hoped on the bus again to the upper city. People here mostly live in the upper areas, and you can see the life style in this area is more modern, but the housing here…holy cheap.

Then, we were back to the lower area of the city to enjoy our lunch. Due to the fact that the hotel owner booked the tour for us, we didn’t really know what’s included in the package of this tour. I soon realized that the lunch was not included, no…. It would have gone better if it was.

After the lunch, we went for the smell cruise to St. Lawrence River, but the docent was not with us. There was another speaker/host on the cruise, wearing mid-century costume, speaking both fluent French and English. He started with French opening and following by English, but I admired his language skill because he introduced the whole thing in both languages and not even looking any notes.