Another early start on a beautiful sunny day. We have about 135kms to cover into Quebec City and I wasnt going to make the same mistake we made coming into Montreal in the dark. Today was also about touring through some of the opulent Catholic churches along the way. It was the church that developed and shaped the land and government of the area so thought it would be interesting to check them out. Each village would try to out do the other with a bigger more opulent building. The pay-off was to attract the rich patrons to support the church and village. A church we stopped at had rebuilt four times over four hundred years in order to to have a lager more impressive building.
One church we toured has a crypt in the basement with over one hundred and eighty buried patrons. The practice was brought from France and was lucrative as the patron had to pay a large sum to be interned there. They believed being close to the praying congregation above would help them ascend to heaven.
Thunder and lightning chased us into the city and we were able to book into the hostel in the old city of Quebec by 8pm.
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