After over 5 miles
of walking about the beautiful old city of Quebec, my legs were saying that Castle walk may have been uphill both ways. It was time to
gather our luggage and head out. We decided to forgo a taxi and walk to the
ship, another 10-15 minute walk. Why not.
We were scheduled to board the ship at 3 pm but decided to go early and pleased that we did. Hardly anyone was there and it was a as simple as going through security and pulling our one suitcase along. Suitcases were scanned and we were pulled aside due to the bottles of wine. The young gentleman: you can only have one bottle. Me: No, the guidelines say we can have one per person. The young man smiled and then said we will keep the third one and return it at the end of the voyage.
We checked into our room, 6th floor veranda on the Zuiderdam (Zi der dam), unpacked and went out to the deck. The rooms are small but adequate and with a veranda the light clearly makes for an extension of that space and that would afford us wonderful evening sunsets and a great place to read while enjoying the salt air while at sea.
Entertaining was watching the continuous loading of luggage and seeing folks in the condo across from us, seemingly having cocktails_ the lowest level, the second, and the roof top, sitting, standing and watching the cruise ship.
I wish we had had more time in the city. Beautiful architecture and although a bit spendy, a lovely city.
The St Lawrence is an amazing and expansive waterway. The
breadth is nothing as we had imagined, and with the appearance of an ocean
except for utter calmness. No whales or sea life to be seen. The ocean breeze,
a slight hum of the ship and the peacefulness of the water gave way to utter
relaxation.
St Lawrence reminded me of being in Minnesota and my first experience with Lake Superior_ a vast ocean of calmness that seemed surreal.
Time to relax, return to our room and continued reading one of the books we brought onboard. Quickly consumed, we were thankful they had a nice library onboard and with many of the authors we enjoyed.
Monday, Oct 2, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (9am. 5pm)
We had lost an hour time yesterday and being in international waters internet was disrupted. The ship offered service but we declined to buy it. We could do without.
We continued up the St Lawrence and our first stop was docking at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Anne of Green Gables that was touted was actually a chocolate store. I selected 6 little pieces of dark chocolate. $16 dollars for those little pieces of silver… er chocolate, but that was Canadian. The gentleman behind the counter said he didn’t know how to convert Canadian to U.S. so dh (my dear husband) helped him, still a bit short changed us… so one might say disappointingly it was a bit of a scam for tourists. And Anne of Green Gables was 25 miles away from town.
