Spent the day hanging around Québec with the three members
of the band who were still left (two departed early in the day). They had to
catch a late-night bus so we had plenty of time to kill. After a leisurely
breakfast we watched the video of the concert and hung out in the hotel lobby
until our most generous hostess, driver, caterer and tour guide Francine came
to pick us up and took us on her own personal tour of the city. First stop:
Observatoire de la Capitale, with amazing views over the whole city (and,
somewhere in it, the venue we played at last night).
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| View over Vieux Québec and the Plains of Abraham from l'Observatoire de la Capitale |
Second stop on the tour: Ashton
for poutine.
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| Poutine: tastes better than it looks! |
Third stop: Vieux Québec, toured partly by car and partly on foot. With plenty of amusing group photos and other silliness. It’s important to have musicians in a band who not only play well but get along great – or, as Fabio put it, musicians who can enjoy “being stupid together”!
When it got dark we found a bar where a band was playing – a
rather unusual band featuring a violinist and a cellist in addition to drums, guitar
and bass.We were just in time to catch their second set over a beer.
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| Québec by night |
After a midnight snack at a nearby diner, I retired to my hostel. I had checked in and left my
pack on my assigned bunk in the afternoon, but only at 1:30 am, when everyone else in the room was
asleep and it was black dark, did I realise that my bed on the top bunk still needed to be
made up! It took quite a bit of fumbling about in the dark to get it together!
Budget: Hostel $25 – Food+beer $20
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