Quebec - Old Montreal
Our latest trip finds us back in Canada, this time in Quebec and the Maritime Provinces. We used Maryland as a springboard because Deborah wanted to attend her 40-year (!) high school reunion. It was a quick flight from Baltimore to Montreal, which is where we find ourselves now. Our plan is to spend two weeks in the city, then bus up to Quebec City for a few days, then acquire a rental car to drive around the Gaspe Peninsula of eastern Quebec and down into New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia before flying out of Halifax in early October. Hopefully we will see a bit of fall color toward the end of our nearly 7-week journey. Artsy, cosmopolitan, francophone Montreal sits on an island in the St. Lawrence River. It is the most populous city in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada (after Toronto). As a vestige of its French colonial past, it is the second largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris. Fortunately for us, many Montrealers a...