Day V, Funicular & Upper Town & Ave Cartier, Quebec, Quebec

Yesterday, the 5th day of our honeymoon, the midway point, Monday, Memorial Day, we decided we needed an "easy" day as we were sore from all our walking and staring upwards.  :D    Also, I said I'd take it easy with the photos, as my neck was really bothering me ... so, just mere 60.    :)

So, the plan was to walk to Lower Town, take the funicular up to Upper Town, then walk down Grande Allee to Ave Cartier to do some shopping. After that we'd see.

I've just realized that we forgot to take our traditional "heading-out" selfie!  :(

C'est la vie!

 Looking up at the funicular from Lower Town on Rue du Petit-Champlain

First view from the funicular car, looking at the small park that abuts the funicular 

Ah, now we can see the Lawrence River from the funicular! 

Funicular selfie! 

Last pic from the funicular, and a great one!

From there, we headed out into the park/square in front of Chateau Frontenac, then headed south on Rue St-Louis, which would turn into Grande Allee after the ramparts.

 The square/park in front of Frontenac ... beautiful!

I just cannot walk past Frontenac without photographing it!  :) 

Rue Sainte-Louis in Upper Town ... so quaint! 

First view of the Rue St-Louis rampart gate ... with a sweet horse-and-carriage ride too! 

Rue St-Louis gate to, or in this case from, Upper Town 

View from the top of the ramparts, looking west away from the city 

View of the parliament building inside a rampart crenelation - cool! 

View of Frontenac from the top of the ramparts at the Rue St-Louis gate 

Rampart selfie! 

Close-up of the parliament roof ... gorgeous!!!

After passing through the Rue St-Louis rampart gate, the street becomes Grande Allee and passes the Hotel du Parliament on the right and will pass the Citadel and Plains of Abraham on the left. We started to look for a lunch spot at this point.

We got tickets to this! The Mastercard Memorial Cup (official site), a championship tournament (Wiki site) for Canada's junior hockey league, played since 1919. Now, the way I understand it from Kurt, is "junior" doesn't mean underage, more like semi-pro in the States, as many of these men will go on to play in the NHL - - so, for a sports fan like Kurt, this is super exciting! And, we get to see Quebec City's team plan, the Remparts, so I imagine the crowd will be EXCITED!! Also, this is the first time QC has hosted this cup since 2003, and hasn't won it since 2006. Lastly, it is being played at the Colisee Pepsi, the same coliseum that the now-defunct Quebec Nordiques played, QC's old NHL team. Big stuff!! We'll go our last night here, Wednesday.

The entrance to the Citadel and the Plains of Abraham on Rue St-Louis 

Ah! Lunch! We ate at Le 3 Brasseurs, or the 3 brewers. It was FANTASTIC food!! And a lovely location too

My beloved at lunch

Midday repast selfie!

Gorgeous Queen Anne homes along Grande Allee, after lunch and still heading south to shop on Ave Cartier

So many churches, so little time.  :D

More lovely homes on Grande Allee

We've turned onto Ave Cartier, and there were cool art installations all along the street!

A super quaint food shop and hotel on Ave Cartier

Well, we didn't find the coin shop we wanted, or rather we found the "coin" shop but it was a sport clothing shop with "coin" in the name.  :(

So, we decided to head back to Upper Town, stopping at a grocery store along the way, and have an early night in.

A stunning building on Rue Sainte-Jean, which we took a left onto from Ave Cartier to head back north to Upper Town. I am IN LOVE with all the silver roofs of this city!!

Yet another beautiful church, still on Rue St-Jean 

Another gorgeous building on Rue St-Jean 

This was our grocery destination. This is the oldest continuously operating food shop (since 1871) in North America - wow! And, wait until you see inside!!! 

The first counter you come to when you enter, with coffee and tea. This place smelled fabulous!!

I read that some of the wooden shelves were original from the 1800s

St. Matthew's ... the church that abuts the oldest cemetery in Quebec City. Now a library. 

Looking inside the door of St. Matthew's 

The history of St. Matthew's ... the city restored the graveyard, which had graves dating back to the 1700s 

Old graves, many of which had the inscription worn away, but they keep a book in the church/library with all the old epitaphs

I like the image at the top

From there we continued to Upper Town to head back home.

We've now entered Upper Town on Rue St-Jean 

Upper Town

One last image of Upper Town

From there we took the funicular back down to Lower Town, picked up our Jean Grenier art (images later as they are all bubble-wrapped for the journey) from the gallery we purchased it at, then stopped at the hand-painted silk-scarf shop at the end of Rue du Petit-Champlain to get me a GORGEOUS memento!!! Or, two.  :D

That's all folks! I hope you'll continue to join us for our remaining 4 days of our French-Canadian honeymoon!!

:D

As always, here is a link to ALL the photos I took on this journey: Honeymoon Day V, Funicular & Upper Town & Ave Cartier, Quebec