Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!houxm!hou2g!rbose From: rbose@hou2g.UUCP (R.BOSE) Newsgroups: net.travel Subject: Quebec Message-ID: <185@hou2g.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 14:46:38 EST Article-I.D.: hou2g.185 Posted: Thu Mar 1 14:46:38 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 07:21:46 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 26 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