Québec 3. Suite en Noir et Blanc...tout comme j'aime!

Québec suite

Et non c'est pas ma nouvelle coupe de cheveux, c'est simplement qu'il y avait too much wind!!


Et oui pas de STOP ici, mais ARRÊT...de même pour dire "quelque chose s'est cassé" non on dit plutôt "quelque chose s'est brisé"...on dit pas non plus "boisson" mais "beuvrage"...et oui comprendre le vieux français du Moyen Age a été ma tâche dans cette ville lol...chuuuutt!! le dites pas à un québecois il va se fâcher!! Non mais j'adore leur accent, really...

Faut voir tous les renseignements qu'ils peuvent mettre sur un paquet de tabac...on a vraiment pas du tout envie de fumer après ça...lol

Québec...in the rain :(

It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.

History of Quebec from Wikipedia (trop mal à la tête pour expliquer tout ça- et oui j'ai une angine-)
The name "Quebec", which comes from the Algonquin word kébec meaning "where the river narrows", originally referred to the area around Quebec City where the Saint Lawrence River narrows to a cliff-lined gap. Early variations in the spelling of the name included Québecq (Levasseur, 1601) and Kébec (Lescarbot 1609).[15] French explorer Samuel de Champlain chose the name Québec in 1608 for the colonial outpost he would use as the administrative seat for the French colony of New France.[16]

The Province of Quebec was founded in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 after the Treaty of Paris formally transferred the French colony of Canada[17] to Britain after the Seven Years' War. The proclamation restricted the province to an area along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River. The Quebec Act of 1774 restored the Great Lakes and the Ohio River Valley regions to the province. The Treaty of Versailles, 1783 ceded territories south of the Great Lakes to the United States. After the Constitutional Act of 1791, the territory was divided between Lower Canada (present day Quebec) and Upper Canada (present day Ontario), with each being granted an elected Legislative Assembly. In 1840, these become Canada East and Canada West after the British Parliament unified Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. This territory was redivided into the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario at Confederation in 1867. Each became one of the first four provinces.

All together in a cannon

The wall who represents the history of Québec. It's the old district of Quebec; just behind there is the Royal Place where a statue of Louis XIV had been put.


Le sirop d'érable. Quand on le met dans de la glace cela devient dur. C'est pour cela qu'il y a de nombreuses friandises à base d'érable.

Les vues du lac de St Lawrence (on dirait franchement la mer)




J'étais en train de dormir dans le bus quand je sens une odeur de pipas...et oui Carlos a tout prévu: il avait ramené des pipas d'Espagne..ahhhh!!!ces espagnols!!! Donc ils étaient les vrais marujas en train de cotillar, et moi au final no me enteré de nada :(

Festival "Juste pour rire" in Montréal

After eating the "poutine plate" (it's the typical plate here: it's fried potatoes and cheese with some kind of strange sauce)- actually I didn't like it!; we went to the Festival and it was quite funny.


I found my dear Charlie Chaplin there!!!! waouaaaaouuuuu!!! lol

Also a typical dessert here called "Queue de castors" I didn't like it as well. It's fried with chocolate, banana, marmelade,...you can put what you want...

Olympic Stadium

At the beginning I didn't want to go be cause I thought it would be boring. But one of my frech friend recommand me to do it. Finally it was a great idea because I love sports and I was really surprise about how huge it was. I felt in love with the swimming-pool. I would like to live in Montréal and could swim in it.
I could assist to a football game and there were 2 french teams!! I stayed a little bit and as they didn't put any goal I left to eat a "poutine plate" with my friends!


Me and the swimming-pool where I would like to swim.

ça c'est pour qq1 qui se reconnaîtra tout de suite. Comme cette personne m'a dit que mes pieds étaient des palmes, j'ai enfin retrouvé une photo qui me ressemble n'est ce pas?

Me and the olympic football stadium

Dowtown in Montréal

I was in the Saint Joseph's Oratory, completed in 1934, and I loved that sentence.

Normally when you're catholic you have to stop in each step and pray until the top of the Oratory. We didn't have a lot of time, so I couldn't do it, but would like to do it...:(

It is a Roman Catholic basilica on the northern slope of Mount Royal. The basilica is dedicated to Saint Joseph, to whom Brother André credited all his reported miracles. These were mostly related to some kind of healing power, and many pilgrims (handicapped, blind, ill, etc.) poured into his Basilica, including numerous Protestants. On display in the basilica is a wall covered with thousands of crutches from those who came to the basilica and were healed

After going to the blind restaurant called "O Noir" (you eat in dark) we jumped and walked into the Mont Royal Park and after one hour we found an amazing view of Montréal by night...In this pic we can't see it very well, but in real it's incredible!

It's the typical houses in Montréal. The bar, pubs, etc... are also like that.

Montréal

Montréal is the second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec. Originally called Ville-Marie ('City of Mary')
The city takes its present name from Mont-Royal, the three-headed hill at the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the city is located or Mont Réal as it was spelled in Middle French
Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.

It's St Lawrence lake. It's Jacques Cartier who found this city in 1535.


It's the official motto of Quebec. It means "We remember the past and its lessons, the past and its misfortunes, the past and its glories"

Playing golf with Olivia and Palmyre

Olivia is the little girl of my family. Yesterday she taught me how to play.
Today I played with Palmyre and a french girl Floriane. We played the driving range and mini-golf...loved it but I haD pain in my hands.

My sunday in Victoria Park

The typical birds from Canada...don't know the name, sorry!...who know?

Les typiques maisons au bord de la plage, dans le port. Certaines personnes aiment vivre loin de la ville et de cette manière...

Vous pensez vraiment qu'on tient 1 à 2 min sous 0ºC?

Où sont mes pieds? lol. Celui qui devine aura droit à qq chose de spécial! lol


We went to see the cliffs in the east part of Toronto, close to Victoria Park. In our way we found a rapsberry tree. So we gathered and ate it...
After that we saw th cliffs but we were quite disappointed, so we stayed on the beach talking and laughing. We came back and we walked a lot until the bus stop!

After 5 hours walking thought Victoria Park we had a great weekend burden in strong emotions!! xxx

Thay said everything about the sea: température, combien il y a de bactéries ds l'eau,..

Niagara falls

Juste derrière moi c'est le "voile de la mariée"

Dowstairs the pic it's the Canada's part and upstairs (where there is the boat) it's the USA's part. If you don't have a Visa you can't go to US


Before going by boat we had to put a raincoat, because inside, when we are near of the falls, it's like a rain storm...incredible! You can't imagine the sensation we all had when we were closer to the falls...can't forget at all.



After the boat we were in the other side of the falls, it was really amazing, like you can touche the falls, there were so close to us. After that we laughted a lot because we were totally wet.

Beach volley in Woodbine beach

Yasmine (Germany) Me myself and I (France/Spain lol) and Carlos (Spain and proud of it)

All together- we were the only courageous people to play beach volley in a cold weather!

Playing baseball with Carlos!

Once Carlos threw the ball, he arrived on time!!

Carlos throwing the ball


As Carlos didn't take pic of me throwing the ball, I wanted to show you that unless I took a lot of pics of Carlos I was playing and my team won!!

How Canadians guys can travel for free...

I don't know if I told you before but here in Toronto they are on strike since 4 weeks ago, so anybody take the rubbish out (all the garbages in the street are full) there is no ferry to see the 1000 islands around the city, no swimming-pool open,...well a disaster! But some people are intelligent as I could read yesterday.

It talks about "Ari Ditkofsky" (the guy on the left) who took advantage of the city workers'strike and started his own garbage collection company until he learned a permit was needed. During about 10 days of operation he made enought money to send himself to Europe for the rest of the summer. The guy is shown with his business partner "Jon Neeman"(the guy on the right).


Actually if a great idea had downed on me, I would do the same and I would travel to Vancouver. I wanted to visit this city because there is mountains and beaches there and it's one of the best city in the world; but unfortunately it's too expensive...can't go :(

Vive la France!

I won't be (unfortunatly?... I'm better here I think...) for the special July,14th...France's day!

I used to celebrate it with friends or family, but this year it's not possibly..well actually it doesn't matter, but I wanted to post this, to support my country I love so so much...

Voilà pour tout ceux qui célébreront la fête nationale demain, je vous embrasse bien fort, vous qui seraient tous bourrés, et n'oubliez pas de boire une coupe de champ's à ma santé!

I took this pic here in Toronto yesterday. It was a french school

Greek district

n Toronto there is a lot of diferent district: italian, french, greek, jews,...As you know Canada is one of the most famous country about his multicultural people.There is more asian people. My family is also asian, they're from Singapore.

Well, yesterday they told me about this district; so I decided to visit this week each district it exists. I began with the greek one. I really loved it 'cause it reminds me the typical Paris shops, around the "6ème arrondissement" (sixth district). The shops are quite small but very smart. I entered in a candy's shop and I couldn't resist to buy candies (love it!) The shop was so nice inside, a tiny and sweet decorations.

I walked from Pape street to Bloor Younge street (it's a quite long walking), I really enjoyed it.

In the candies shop I found the famous Wonka from the movie...but I didn't buy it...too fat!


The greek square



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