Quebec City

We ended up spending quite a few days in Quebec City even though it was the coldest place we were planning to visit on the east coast, just because we loved it so much. We got a hotel right in the old town on the upper level - it was divided into upper and lower by a steep cliff side that had a little cable car to get between the two

Our street - rue Saint-Louis

 

The whole old town was still surrounded by the fortification walls, our street was a main road in with one of the five entrances at the end of it

 

At the edge of the cliff was the giant Fairmont Hotel, and a large balcony (rue de la Terrasse-Dufferin) overlooking the lower old town and the Saint Lawerence River





In the lower old town is their oldest market square, and the Notre Dame des Victoires

 

The oldest area in Quebec City, rue du Petit Champlain

 

The old battlefield - Plains of Abraham, which felt very creepy all covered in snow for some reason

 

We also took a day trip out to the Montmorency Falls, they are apparently 1.5x higher than Niagara Falls but just nowhere near as wide. The line across the top was a massive bridge you could cross over. They looked awesome half frozen..

Another bridge to get around the falls

 

One of the buildings in the city, Palais Montcalm, had turned their front courtyard into an iceskating rink for the winter and had music playing for anyone to come skate