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Today we decided to try out a place we'd seen yesterday for breakfast. The place in question is Buffet de L'Antiquaire, we'd seen some people eating there when we were out taking night photos yesterday and noticed they did an all day breakfast. It turned out to be a good choice, I had a full fry up and Dani had a pancake with eggs and bacon. Feeling pretty full, we headed out for the day. Today we had decided to visit the Montmorency falls. It's a bit further out of Quebec city so we needed to find another route there. We had found a review on trip advisor that talked about getting the bus, so we dutifully headed down to the bus station. We bought the bus tickets from a kiosk and then headed out to find the bus stop for bus 800. We didn't have to wait long before the bus arrived and we were on our way. 

The bus took about 25 minutes to reach it's final stop in Monmorency and so everyone got off. The next bit involved following a man that we thought knew where he was going... we think he did but decided on a slightly different route at the very end. It turns out the falls aren't particularly well signed, but we found them in the end anyway. We had arrived at the top of the falls on a bridge that overlooks them, and after looking for a while we wondered if that was it, but then spotted some steps leading down the side. The wooden steps weave down the side of the falls with lookout platforms dotted on the way down, it kind of looks like an Ewok village. Reaching the bottom, we walked to the edge of the platform right in front of the falls. There was a refreshing mist from all the water that was amazing to stand in given it was another really hot day, so we spent a while there enjoying it and taking a few photos.

We then followed the path around the pool at the bottom of the falls and across the bridge to a welcome centre, where we sat and had a drink in the cool. We had also spotted that you could catch a cable car from here back to the top, and not relishing the thought of all the steps we bought tickets. The cable car took us back to the top on the other side of the bridge from where we had first started, just outside Manoir Montmorency, an old building that houses receptions rooms and a restaurant. We didn't go in, but we did have an ice-cream from the stall on the boardwalk terrace just around the corner - it was very nice. Just as we were about to cross back over the bridge to head back out, we realised that the bus stop where we had been dropped off, was just up the pathway (we'd walked a long way round as it turned out when we'd arrived). As we headed up the path, we managed to catch our return bus that was just getting ready to leave. 

Back in Quebec we had a look for a supermarket that was suppposedly near where we'd got the bus, but it was nowhere to be found so we headed back to the hotel empty handed. We went to a local pizza place for tea which turned out to be a more or less private dining experience, arriving quite late, we ended up being the last customers there. It was very tasty, nonetheless! 

Hello boys and girls, this is it, the adventure is over, we are back in the UK after a flight from Paris that set off and arrived at the same time (Weird). We are already busy rushing between Sheffield and Coventry catching up with family and such like. Again apologies for such a long time since our last blog, we splashed out a bit and stayed in a hotel in Paris so no computer facilities I'm afraid.

Anyways how was Pairs I hear you ask? We had a very busy time fitting in all the sights, starting on Monday with Disneyland!!!! Mickey was on top form and we had an awesome day with the sunshine holding out right up until 20 minutes before the park closed. Tuesday we visted the Palace of Versailles which had some splendid artwork, architecture and gardens - get me, cultured! The next two days we did the full on tourst thing taking in the Eiffel Tower, Saint Chapelle, Sacre Coeur (Very Tasty and a fantastic view), The Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, Moulin Rouge and dropped in to see  Mona at the Louvre. We also found time to eat, sleep and shower suprisingly (Including a final meal to finish off the trip at a little restaurant near Sacre Coeur - they didn't serve cheesy cottage pie - gutted)!

So what now? Well with plenty of time on my hands this website will no doubt be changing. The plan is to allow you lot to upload your photos, post blogs, have your own members with email updates, all the things we've had essentially, there is also another website on the way where we shall be publishing our trip journal and all the bits that are currently stuffed inside it.

Besides all that we have much sorting out to do after unceremoneously dumping our stuff in Sheffield before running off for 3 months, so that should keep us busy. We will off course be making a few visits here and there so hopefully see you all soon . . . . . . for now though this is it, I'll turn off the email updates and in a while you'll have the chance to opt back in and recieve future news and blogs (I bet you can't wait)

Cheerio and ta ta everyone, thanks for tuning in xx

PS Paris photos will appear in the next couple of days!

I've just been making a few tweaks before we take our trip and decided to add in a new feature - album comments. It seemed like a big job until a few recent changes that made it all possible so there you go. You can now add comments to blogs, albums and individual photos. The new comment link appears only on albums containing photo's and can be found under the album cover and summary which appears on the right of the screen. 

I've also added a few icons to give the site a bit of a facelift. If anyone's interested I'm using the fontawesome font set to generate the icons. Its really straightforward to use and there's lots of icons to choose from. I've got quite addicted and added them all over the place, many of which only Dani and I will ever see! That's all for now, let me know if you have any issues.