My 70th birthday in North America

Eurodam in Quebec

This was a special birthday cruise from Quebec in Canada to New York City, on Eurodam, with Holland America. Just a little too early for the brilliant autumn colours but some unforgettable days cruising the St Lawrence river and the eastern seaboard of the USA. We sailed into New York at sunrise to meet Mark and Katie and spent an equally good weekend of site-seeing in NY, from an apartment in Brooklyn.

Birthday in Quebec

We boarded the Eurodam and made our way to the stern cabin 6181 on deck 6 looking up at the castle on the hill. Mark and Katie had arranged a bottle of champagne and chocolates to be on the balcony so we started the cruise in style.

Flying to Quebec

After a quiet night in the Premier Inn we were dropped off at Teminal 3 where we joined the queue at check-in and found we were behind another couple who were on our cruise. We flew by Air Canada from Heathrow at 10:50am and arrived in Montreal  at about 1:00pm local time. Then after a couple of hours transfer time we boarded a small turbo prop aircraft for the 50 min flight to Quebec. We spent the night in the Marriot Courtyard Hotel near the port and after a meal in small a French restaurant we walked down to a point where we could see the Holland America cruise terminal and the Eurodam waiting. Quebec is french speaking and everything about the town looks very French.