Quebec City

Quebec City has been described as "the most beautiful city" by the students. Here we have been surrounded by many different art forms. Everywhere we turn we see galleries, sculptures, monuments and street performances.

Yesterday we took a tour of the city and ended up staying in the Holy Trinity Church to watch an English Change Ringing demonstration where we learned about the ringing of cathedral bells. It is a very hard form of ringing as the ringers have to work together to ring for sometimes longer than three hours.

In the afternoon we visited an art expo where there were hundreds of artisans from all over quebec selling their handcrafted creations. In the evening we caught a Cirque de Soleil acrobatic performance.

Last night we were awoken to a fire two buildings down from our hostel. Fire engines, fire fighters and police were outside our hostel as they hooked up their hoses to the fire hydrant in order to put out the fire. The streets surrounding our hostel was caution taped off as well. The fire was finally put out at 2am.

We all lived to tell the tale but there is never a dull moment here with English on the Road.

We will be camping for the next couple of days in Saguenay Provincial Park so there will be no updates for a while! See you when we return.

Katherine and the crew