I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

amateur traveler episode 790. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about Wales and

National Parks, Lighthouse and the other kind of National Parks, Avia Farada, and Putin as we go to the Quebec Maritin.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Quebec. I'd like to welcome the show Margarita Ibit from DownshiftingPro.com and Margarita has come to talk to us

about the Quebec Maritimes. Margarita welcome to the show.

Hi it's nice to be back.

I'm really happy to be here, Chris.

And you say be back, you were on the show before talking about...

We were talking about road trips to Montreal and Quebec City, So I am well versed in Nabel Provence and I want to bring you to a region that I have fallen deeply, deeply in love with. So Quebec maritime, but I'll be referring to it as

Quebec maritime is an area that has four regions. It is the North Shore, the Lower St. Lawrence, the Magdalen Islands, and of course the Gaspisie, which is on the Peninsula.

So we're going to be spending most of our time

on the Gaspay Peninsula today,

and hopefully you're just gonna want to go.

It's just gonna be a destination for you.

Excellent. Well, and I think the amateur traveler listeners are smart enough to know that when we're talking

about Quebec we're talking about Canada.

Eastern Canada particularly, but we'll just say it for in case anybody didn't know that but I think they do.

Excellent well why should someone go to Quebec maritime?

Well I think one of the most important reasons is Canada is the second largest country in the world, but it has a very unique

position in that it has a province that is primarily French speaking. So although you would find spectacular things to find in the

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