GOVERNMENT, ART AND CHOCOLATE

This morning we visited the citadel, which also includes the residence of the Governor General of Canada.

Changing of the guard

The Gov. Gen. is slightly more than a figurehead he actually has the job kind of running interference between Parliament and the prime minister.  The governor's job alternates between Anglophones and Francophones.  

One side of the house is part of the original wall or rampart.  

Part of the house is very traditional and looks like  looks like it must've looked in the 1700s.   Other spaces are very modern. Both parts are very appealing. And they wouldn't let us take pictures.

Following that we went to the fine arts Museum of Québec. It is a really nice museum and It also has a  very interesting collection of Inuit art.

I like their modern art collection a lot, especially the artist Jacques? Riopelle.   He had a large piece of art in the governor General's home, that is one of the only pieces that isn't rotated among the various works of art, because the room was designed to have the piece in it.  

After the museum we walked back to the hotel, stopping at a cute cafe on the way and having the Canadian version of a Croquet Madame (ham, cheese, tomato on a baguette.). In Paris it would have been fried in oil or butter, but here it was open face and just on a wonderful, freshly baked baguette.

This is the real town where people live, above

This is how cute the old town is.

 On our walk home we stopped at the museum of chocolate.  They had many things made of chocolate, including a dress.  They also had gelato.  I had a chocolate gelato called Mayan or Mexican and it had hot spice in it.  It was really good.