The Route de la Nouvelle-France

For the middle part of our vacation we stayed in and every day drove along the Route de la Nouvelle-France (or the adjacent highway) through the Côte-de-Beaupré.

















One big feature: ye olde root cellars. In one of the pictures below, Angela stands in front of a root cellar built in 1650: two years before Jan van Riebeeck settled at the Cape of Good Hope.






















Many buildings along the route have roofs with distinctive swooping eaves.


















There is the odd roadside shrine.




















Destination: the grassy sides of the fortifications of the Citadelle of Quebec, from which their is a beautiful view of the Château Frontenac and the city.