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...QUEBEC isn't all there is to the city. Beyond the walls of the original town is newer Quebec and a huge metropolitan area. My parents and I wandered past the gates of the old city to a street called the Grande Allee...
What they miss is reality. They miss the Grande Allee, lined with bars and restaurants with prices that actually vary. This is a true Quebec hangout, filled with people who live in the city year-round, who parallel park their slick sportscars along the old roads. Well-dressed, French-speaking college students bounce from bar to bar in small groups as others sip German beer and eat pizza at the outdoor tables, just people-watching...
There's no hint of the Grand Allee or L'Exposition d'Agriculture inside the walls of Old Quebec. Within the walls, scarcely a cobblestone lies out of place. Those that do were probably knocked out by somebody's Toyota...
...TOUR BOOKS describe Old Quebec as a colonial town. But this is not an old town, or even a rebuilt one. It's as artificial as the global villages in Epcot Center. Everything in Old Quebec is made of plastic, somebody's idea of what an old European town would have been like if Walt Disney had been around to design...
...buildings in the seventeenth-andeighteenth-century town of Quebec weren'tperfect-they were crooked and lived-in and worn.The cobblestones weren't perfect but filthy andcrumbling, broken by horse drawn carriages thattoppled over, dirtied by horses who left trails ofstench and defecation...