Quebec City Number 1

Arrived here in Quebec City, Quebec about 1 p.m. and drove downtown to old town. Quebec is an amazingly old city First established in the 1530s. We drove to old town and visited an old ammunitions factory that was held by the French, then the British. The old city is surrounded by a stone wall. The lower old city is right on the St. Lawrence river which connects to the Atlantic Ocean. You will notice in old city the cobblestone streets are very narrow with lots of little shops along the street of stone buildings - very European. The Catholic church was built in 1688 on the site that Champlain originally built his stockard (an early Canadian explorer). Tomorrow we are taking an all day guided tour. This will be our last Canadian stop. Friday morning we will head to Maine and probably spend the night in southern Maine. In the city 94% speak French so we don't hear much English, although the shop keepers speak some English.