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Pictures From Quebec City

written by John Chow on April 20, 2007

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

Man, I thought Montreal was a culture shock until I got into Quebec City. If you’ve ever wondered how you can visit Europe without flying across the ocean, come to Quebec! You would swear you were in some European village instead of a Canadian town. Even the traffic lights are different here – they’re horizontal. Here are some photos.

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I’m still trying to figure out what this sign means. Any ideas?

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Quebec female demonstrates how to match a tattoo with a pair of jeans. Now that’s fashion sense! You have to love the power of 12X zoom. :twisted:

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hahaha... great pictures man!

-Sam from MarketMatador.com

Great pics! I was born and raised in Canada and still have not been East of Toronto. Now you really made me want to go.

Does look like Europe instead of North America, even down to the gal's tattoo, which seems to be the fad, at least here in Italy, at the moment.

Hi !!!
Beautiful town!!
According to me that signs means soma like "Information point for handicap's people"..but i don't know! :???:

PS italian's "tatoo" are better !!!! :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

lmao, nice pic john. Lets hope she never see's this blog.. Wow quebec city looks like a really awesome place to go to! I may want to visit there someday.

I'm still curious to know what the handicapped sign with the question mark means. :?:

I don't think I would like it there. French people have always seemed rude/snooty. The English aren't much different, but at least they know their rude.

I still think Canadians are some of the nicest people I've met. Everything is much more simple up there.

Watch is Paul, NEVER compare us English to the French

Damn looks like Europe :D
Next trip stop by in Sweden, you'll like it I bet.

What kind of camera are you using?

I Dugg this story -- thanks John for commenting on how ridiculous this language law is.

http://askjasonmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/04/queb...

-Jason

the sign at Honduras means
"estás seguro que son un inválido?"
entonces estacionate aquí kabron.

nice pics John, i like the 12x zoom!

:mrgreen:

I Love that last picture ... Gotta Love 12X Zoom !

Darin

John,
You must try the Anciens Canadiens restaurant on St-Louis St in the old part of Québec, for amazing authentic French-Canadian food. And I want pictures! Do try the tourtière.

Luc

John Chow: Dot Com Mogul Thong Spotter.

Has anyone noticed the woman's left hand in that last picture? Everyone was so busy staring at her...pant print that it never even dawned on us that she had a cast of some sort. Perhaps she could've known what the special handicap sign above meant? :lol:

WOW! nice observation. Interesting how the human brain works....

My guess is she beat up the last guy who took her picture from behind and broke her hand in the process LOL. John got away with it, thanks to 12x zoom. :twisted:

my first impression was some sort of anti-thong-picture-taking-pervert device but I guess since John's alive to post the pic, I'm off on my guess ;)

or maybe the 12x zoom saved his butt....

John, you really should come to Europe and Italy.

Here you will learn a lot about cities and food.

Isn't Chow pronunced the same as Ciao?

A presto
Mr. Oz

I wouldn't be surprised if John's next stop was somewhere overseas. John Chow on the road...Europe THEN Asia...that would be so awesome.

Is it a parking sign? Maybe it's a

'are you handicapped and parking here? You better be.' :mad:

Maybe it means 'handicapped / generally confused?' :lol:

I think the sign means wheelchair accessible/ information ? Thats my guess.

That hybrid handicap sign must mean "have you checked your crutches/wheelchair lately?" or "can you see a handicap person beside you? If so, please step sideways and give way to the poor guy/gal" -- something like that. :smile:

Maybe context would help, where was the sign located? Near anything? :)

Looks like sidewalk rails to me, but only John knows the right answer to that. :neutral: Now I REALLY need to know what that sign means...

:) all pictures are...except the last one..NOT!!

In an unrelated comment....

John did you know you can't turn right on a red at a stop light in Quebec? Seriously, you can get a ticket for this....

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2003/04/13/redlight...

Montreal is the only city where you cant , other city have sign that say you can't turn in some places for safety reason due to high volume trafic or pedestrians.

WOW. I'm out of date now.

Thanks for the link. I had a friend who was ticketed in 1999 in Hull, Quebec....

We have some lights that are specifically marked as no right turn on red. Not very many, only intersections it would be dangerous.

I think this is because Montreal is one of the only places I see people standing out in the middle of the street waiting to walk.... So taking a turn on red could mean smashing one of these people.

the last pic wqas too good, was ur wife beside?

btw the sign would mean a handicap helpline or something...

Yeh there are 2-3 towns in India too which look like french, have the sign boards, street names in French. Once a french colony. Good too see such in Cannada too

That's a good question, I mean, you'd have to assume his wife would visit the blog, at least occasionally! :)

Personally I hear enough from my partner already so the last thing I'd want to do is read about them as well, is there no escape :mrgreen:

I've met his wife and she seems cool with it. It's not like evil John is going to pursue things any further than a candid photo anyways.

John Chow: Stalker Extraordinare.

As a European I must tell you: Even here, horizontal traffic lights are quite seldom.. ;-)
But the pics are nice, actually it does look a little like Switzerland, Straßbourg, Heidelberg or Göttingen! If you see a tall dude called Rémy, about 28, give him kind regards from me. He should strolling around in Quebec..

Yeah... horizontal lampposts don't = Europe ...

haha, what does your wife think about pics like the last one??

FT

Hope you were subtle when you took that last pic John!

When you have 12X zoom, they don't know what hit them. :twisted: