Touted as the “snow capital of the world,” Quebec receives an average snowfall of more than 13 feet per year, and the magical winter wonderland has an outdoorsy culture forged by centuries of winter sport. A host of activities including skiing, skating, toboggan sledding, snowshoeing, and tubing are easily accessible in and around the quaint and […]
I don’t usually need a special reason to travel to Québec City, but this time there was one. This time, Canada’s little Paris outdid itself with a major exhibition, “Paris en Scène 1889-1914,” at the Musée de la civilization. That was the reason my husband and I landed in Jean Lesage Airport a day before […]
A [married] bonne femme in search of Bonhomme, I arrived at the Carnaval de Quebec, the largest winter festival in the world, during an unexpected heat wave – only minus seven degrees Celsius! A California poppy for so many years, I usually shy away from cold. How soon we forget… On our way from Jean-Lesage […]
There are a few places on Earth where I want to return time and again. One of them is Quebec, where they speak, eat, and drink French but greet visitors (even those who “ne parle pas Français”) with purely American hospitality. Quebec specialties like foie gras, maple syrup, and ice wine are not the only […]
When a comely passport control officer at Jean-Lesage International airport greeted us with “bonjour,” my flight fatigue just melted away. Everything sounds so much better in French, and the population of ancient Quebec is 95% francophone! I felt like looking at illuminated city sites and listening to music. The night was young, in San Francisco, […]