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From: rbose@hou2g.UUCP (R.BOSE)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Quebec
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 14:46:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 14:46:38 1984
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    I visited Quebec City in the summer of 1976. Here is some (dated)
information, and some impressions that stuck.
     Try and stay inside the walled city. There is a youth 
hostel very close to the tourist office. When we were there, I
remember meeting a large group of kids who were on a trans-Canada
bicycle trip. I parked my car at a municipal parking lot nearby
for a few days. Unfortunately, the same parking lot was used
by numerous horse/buggy outfits as a resting place between trips.
One horse went beserk and smashed into my car.
Did lots of body damage. And of course, if you cant speak French,
the police are no help at all, they pretend not to understand a word
of English.
   The highlight of the visit was a tour of the Citadel and the changing
of the Guards. There is a famous Canadian regiment that uses the Quebec
City fortress as its home base. Their mascot is a damned smelly goat,
(in 1976 he was called Baptiste III). The current version is probably
Baptiste V. He is driven in from his home in the zoo for the parade,
and as the guide pointed out, his chauffeur takes him home for 
lunch with his wife and kids. Apparently there was a time when Baptiste
actually resided in the fort, but the Commandant couldnt take 
the smell anymore.
   The fort also has two cannon gifted to it by Gen. deGaulle on his 
famous trip to PQ. They are prominently dispayed. One points towards
Ottawa, the other towards Washington D.C.

Ron Bose (AT&T-BL, Holmdel) hou2g!rbose