I had to be in Quebec City Monday... So we (wife and friends) went Friday and spent the weekend driving around Ile d'Orleans and in old-town Quebec. The B&B is lovely. Comfy beds and private bathrooms. Clean as can be (take your shoes off at the front door) and no TV. The Sunday brunch educational and decadent. It was only... more

We visited this interesting blacksmithing demonstration shop, small museum and shop (known as an economusee). An economusee is a business whose products are made using traditional methods and is open to the public. At this particular place you could see Guy Bel and his apprentices working on actual wrought iron pieces through a glass observation window. There was also a... more