I Went To Quebec City In The Middle Of Winter And You Should Too
). For 10 days every February, Quebec City becomes a living snow globe: Restaurants erect carved ice archways and pop-up snow slides; jazz and folk singers croon in liquor store–sponsored tents; a winter village crops up in the old city, replete with an ice labyrinth, snow-crafted beach chairs, and every treat of the maple variety you could possibly imagine.
If you’re even more bewildered by my pitch now than you were at the beginning of this post, stay with me.Blanketed in white, Quebec City engenders an almost Buddhist detachment from the usual pitfalls of vacationing. We didn’t have to worry aboutto wear, since we only concerned ourselves with how many layers we could feasibly fit under our parkas. All food felt like blessed sustenance instead of sinful overindulgence.
Not being able to travel more than half an hour in below-zero temperatures, we took refuge in one watering hole after another.
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