Dull morning, lovely town; looking North

This was Saturday morning, looking out a hotel room's dirty window in Quebec City. Despite the EXIF time stamp, it was well before 9am and yet another gigantic cruise ship was starting to turn towards where she'd tie up a few minutes later. In the six days I was there, there was at least one, perhaps two, every day, and the city swarmed with that peculiar kind of tourist that takes big-ship cruises. We mixed with them everywhere. Or almost everywhere; we spent some time in the neighbourhood of St Roch (off to the left, out of the picture here) and managed to get a feel for what locals' downtown was like.

It's a beautiful city and -- despite the grunge on the window and the over-sharpening -- this shows some of it for me.