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People who love Old Quebec say its just like a small European town. Although I've never been to a small European town, I'm pretty sure it's not like Old Quebec. Old Quebec is a Small European Town Theme Park--a carefully designed approximation that makes things easy for its American guests...
...THEME PARK is complete without a ride or two. Old Quebec has its "Founiculaire," a sort of outdoor elevator that travels by rope from the hotel to the street below. Although the two-minute trip costs at least a dollar, and the stairway to the town center isn't very long, the lines for the Founiculair often run around the block...
Nearly every re-created house contains a similar souvenir shop. In addition to the T-shirts, the stores sell hats, bags, mugs, shot glasses and thimbles--any tacky souvenir, you name it and it's there stamped "QUEBEC" in cheesy letters. When my brother went to Quebec on a school trip, he bought my mother a set of cheap plastic measuring spoons shaped like frogs from stores. They've long since broken...
...QUEBEC is a French-speaking city in a French speaking province. The shopkeepers in Old Quebec speak French. So do the restaurateurs. Their establishments, which serve French entrees at suspiciously-similar prices, fill the houses that don't contain souvenir shops...
...inside the walls of the old city, here in Quebec World, the waiters and managers all speak English to accommodate their American customers. Forget about trying to order in French; the servers would probably prefer you didn't slaughter the language...