Quebec City

The Chateau Frontenac - Old fortification and old town in Quebec City

Lower old town...

The summer festivals (and heat wave) continue in Quebec city... viewing the backstage and sunset on top of the old city wall.

Fleury Latouche Clan

Escaping the heat wave at Terese's place (Reg's step-mum's)

Sasha: Parenting lessons

The family at the pub!

Thanks Reg, Jas, Sydney and Sasha for a very warm welcome into Montreal! It was lovely to visit and stay!

And also a great night out at the International Jazz Festival in Montreal... "Are you agree?" (Emir Kusturica and his No Smoking Band...)

Montreal, Hot Montreal

We arrived Montreal by plane, flying over vast Canada, on July 4th.

Buggy-ing and Boogie-ing

After a morning of watching the football (Go European nations!) and trying out different baby buggies - Andrew mostly doing the former... we hit the Yaletown Roundhouse area for some live music - The Vancouver Jazz Festival in its 25th year.

Caught bits of different shows, a jazz quintet, a country-sounding band, a jazz orchestra and a jazz singer all for free and some outside locations in giving it a very summer festival feel - despite the not quite summer temperatures. A very relaxing afternoon and evening before our early start for Quebec the next day.

Sunny Vancouver

Raccoons, Beluga Whales, Dolphins, Sharks and 4D cinema experience at the Vancouver Aquarium, followed by a stroll by the beach and dinner in Yaletown, make a pretty long but fun tour of Vancouver downtown.

O Canada Day

Canada Day on Granville Island and fireworks at Canada Place.

Granville Island: lots of activity in the market, galleries, many stages with performances and music and street perform

ers... a real festival feeling.

Then fireworks at night at packed Canada Place (400,000 people estimated to have been out watching the fireworks)

Vancouver is a beautiful and peaceful city.

Chinatown is a bit dodgy though - feels like the homeless and junkies of the world conspired to make our accidental walk through the main street quite "an interesting experience".

Anyways, bed, then world cup at 7am and 11:30am. A respectable hour, instead of 2:30am!!

The Edward at Windsor

A lovely B&B, this is our Edward Room. Kath continues to make peace
with the bed. Baby kicks her awake every now and then.

Great breakfast this morning (made better by my 3 hour anticipation -
I was awake at 5 and they only serve breakky at 8)... But must
remember that 1 Canadian serve is equal to 2.5 HK serves. We thought
we had eaten our 2 serves of French toast to be greeted with the same
dish again!!