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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Well, we're already having some laughs here at Virtuoso twenty
twenty five in Las Vegas. It's Michael Patrick Shields. And
of course we're sort of going around the world and
you're going with us. Your vacation should begin with Virtuoso
Virtuoso dot com. And you're gonna have plenty of ideas
from me during these broadcasts. And we're going to go
east and a little bit north to our neighbors. Pascal
(00:29):
Bobon is with you and is with me from Kembec City.
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Nice to meet you too, Michael. I'm very happy to
be with you.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We were chuckling because you told me the translation of
your name from Quebecua or French to English.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, so my last name is so when you translated
is drink wine.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So no more secrets about it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I only wish we had a glass in front of
us right.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Now, later on that day today, for sure, but too
late to our in the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You will know this, and most people won't believe it,
but the last time I was in Quebec, I was
taken to a winery where they made wine with tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah. Oh, there's Amerto.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, I think that was oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
But you know that in the Olia Island now that
is about ten minutes from downtown Quebec city, we have
many wineries like that. They're doing great wine, the same
PI wineries won plenty of prices.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We also have cassis.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I don't know if you were aware that we have Cassius,
Cassius mona fits black currant liquors. And there are the wines.
They're in Sangria, vodka gin. So we have plenty of choices.
You can do the old tour of the island. It's
about sixty seven kilometer in total, and there's like more
(01:53):
than just wine. You know, you have a cheese factory,
you have chocolate factory.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You cannot do fruit speaking kind of things.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So there's a and it's so close to Quebec city,
so you have the boat ward, you have like the
old historical word the writage site in Old Quebec. And
in the meantime ten minutes drive, you're like in the
middle of the land and you can visit the farms
and everything.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Let me now it comes back to my mind something
else I drank when I was in Quebec. This was
on a different trip. It was called caribou.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Cariboo.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, this is more like a drink that we're taking
in the winter because you know, in Quebec we have
four seasons and in winter it can be a bit cold.
So when you drink cariboo, you're feeling really warm. And
that's a drink that we like, we are used to
drink during the winter carnival.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I don't know if you know the winter carnival.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's where I drank it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Okay, so that's where mainly we're drinking. But you can
there's a restaurant LaBouche and it's more like a sugar
shark style in the old Quebec that you can drink
caribou all year round and they are doing their own
cariboo and it's very good.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, I drank so much of this cariboo that I
saw a giant living snowman walking around the car.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, you've met banam so have you made like this?
The little dance with his legs that is just like they.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Can probably now seven.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It will turn seventy two years this year, so.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'm not the only one that'saw big white living snowman
like a pink elephant.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
No, you're not, but it's the oldest one, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And his name translates to.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
We just called it boma. We never like.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, but the word bonam, what would that mean? In English?
It's welcome or something like their happiness, isn't it happy? Man?
Good man?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Good man? No, it's like for the past year, like
we're just calling in the snowman. But it's more banam.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
They call it banam in a way in both languages
because it's banoma.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Now it's one hundred degrees in Las Vegas where we're
sitting right now. If you go to the winter carnival,
which in Quebec is in February, right, yes, it's decidedly
colder than one hundred degrees fahrenheit.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah. I'm not really good with fahrenheit. I have to
be honest, but it's old.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Say fahrenheit probably would be it's like sixty sixty would
be like it'd be like forty five here, wouldn't it celsius?
When it's one hundred double it in ad thirty?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I think something yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's you're good.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's cold though at the carnival.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, because it's colder. But I like to say that
there's no bad weather, there's bad clothing. So as long
as you have the right clothes and you have caribou
really close by, you're.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Like, you can have so much fun.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And that's why we have so many activities during winter
to make it fun. So that's where you can come
to go back to embrace winter and just enjoy. There's
like skating rink, cross country skiing, alpine skiing, sliding, like
you have all the winter sports. It's not like just
a destination for the winter carnival, but winter carnival with
(05:08):
the night parade.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It is very nice to explore.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It is, in my experience, one of the most charming
things I've ever done in my life. And okay, it's cold,
but that's part of the charm. As you suggest, I
would put it up with Dad Las Moertos in Mexico
down there where was a Mazatlan and the running of
the bulls. It is a world major event. And if
you're listening in Michigan right now and you can get
(05:33):
there in the winter, put it on your schedule because
it is so charming. I remember too, there was a well,
there was a Miss Carnival beauty pageant on the Friday night, okay,
and there was no bikini contesting.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
But you know that during the Winter Carnival, we do
have the snow bats every year and there's people there
are like wearing their oh yeah setting suits going.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Out the cold punch, Yeah, the cold punch, and every
year there's like a bunch of people that are doing
this kind of yeah, it's pretty cold this. I have
to be honest. I like winter. I love doing sports
in winter.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
But every time that I'm saying them doing this and
said no, this is not for me, I like, no, no, no,
I don't want to be like all the people watching me,
like the in the snow. But that's an event that
is part of the Winter Carnival, like the ice Canny Waves,
the ice culture and everything. So the batting, like the
(06:36):
bad snow snow, it's it's every year and there's people
that have been there for years. They are here, they
are at the event every year enjoying this kind of craziness.
But now it's pretty popular, like the cold plant. So
it's been seventy years that they were doing this in Quebec,
(06:59):
but now everybody are even they are buying their own
bad at home to.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Do, like oh, yeah, ask, yeah, well, amazing me. You
can tell by Pascal's voice when you go to Quebec
it's not going to be like when you go to Toronto.
It's going to be a much more French affair right
along the Saint Lawrence River. And if you don't want
to fly across the ocean and you want to have
that kind of romantic French experience, is a good choice,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yes, it's a very good choice.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And with the US dollar right now, it's also very
nice because your dollar is stronger than us, so it's
it can be a great vacation and it's great for
your dollar too.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And we are we want you to come. You will
be well welcome. That's the word that I want you
to keep you that.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's a little crafty what you're saying there. There's a
little bit of sensitivity.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
A little bit, but it's like we want the Americans
that are coming. We love you, and we just want
you to be back, and don't be scared. You will
be well served.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And even if we have.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Our French accent mel c. And you should know too
that the US ambassador to Canada right now is a
man called Pete Hookstro who is from Michigan. He was
a congressman from Michigan. He appears on my program regularly,
so we have a nice connection there. Oh, this is
good to know, Pete Hookstro. If you need the ambassador,
you let me know.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Okay, thank you, Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And what about Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau? Have they
been at the Fairmont canoodling?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But they were in Montreal and I'm based in Quebec City,
so I don't have any massive to say.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Maybe they will come to the Ice Hotel this winter
and eat things up.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
They might, because you know that there's a new Ice
restaurant that's just started last year and it's back for
three years in a row. And that's the Fermont that
is doing the guttering. And you can eat in the
Ice restaurant at the Ice Hotel. That's an experience.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
We'll continue with the details of that in a flash.
Welcome back to Warm Las Vegas and the Virtual Also
Travel Conference. Pascal Boon is the well spokesperson for Quebec City.
(09:16):
Her name means drink wine and from the Caribou is
the wine that will warm you up. She wasn't kidding, though.
There is a hotel Maid and a restaurant. You say
entirely of ice.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I stayed in the Ice hotel two years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Here you alone.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I was with a friend of mine, but a girl.
So I was like sleeping on my sleeping bag.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You have to sleep in a sleeping bag, don't you.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But you always have a real room, I have to say,
in the hotel, the real hotel next to the IS hotel.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So that's where you put your luggage in.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You can take your shower and everything, and you're you're
moving to your Is Hotel room just at the last
minute to sleep, and they're bringing you your sleeping bag
after nine pm.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The bed is made of ice, no.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Because there's no bed you like the bed is that? Yes,
it's bad. Yeah, that's ice. But you have a real
mattress on top of it. And the sleeping bag, a
sleeping bag that is minus thirty or minus forty degrees celsius.
So it's very to be honest, I was like a bit,
I was not quite sure, And now I did it,
(10:24):
and I can say that I have the best sleep
ever because it's a bit cool. There's no sounds, and
it's dark and it's fresh, so you really you just
have to stay inside your sleeping bag.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But as long as you're sleep in your sleeping bag,
you have a really good sleep.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Funny thing is there's a bar in there too.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, the big, the huge ice bar. When you have
your your drink in ice glass.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Is made of ice.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes, And you can also do a kind of workshops
that you can do your own glass because you know
it's a it's a piece of ice, and you have
a machine that make the hole.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And oh and you can do your own ice ice.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Last, I wonder if you could get a frozen margarita
in an ice hotel.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Margarita could be possible.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It's they have special cocktails, but not margarita because it's
maybe too complicated and they.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Have so many people. So do you have special drinks
but with different alcohol?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You can get ice wine? I bet for sure yes.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
And you have the as I mentioned the ice restaurant
that was a new.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Restaurant this my last winter, and that's the Fermont chateau
that was in charge and they were still in charge
of the gathering at the Ice restaurant. And when you
get in the Ice restaurant, you receive champagne in a
bigger glass of ice, but it's a kind of you
(11:56):
know so, and that's.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
The start of your your evening. It's with a champagne
on the sparking wine on the ice glass.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Same. You think the hotel you mentioned is the castle
sort of historic hotel that's right looking over the river
and over the village the old Quebec.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You're talking about Fermont Chateaufhonac. Yes, that's the famous Chateau
Phonac that is one of the most photographed hotel in
the world, with six hundred or eight i think rooms
in total. But it's an iconic hotel and that's the
building that you can see from almost everywhere in Quebec,
(12:36):
you know, from the old town, even from the.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Orleans Island, you.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Can't miss this huge building that is the hotel that
has been there for years now.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
It's sixteen.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, world leaders stay there, celebrity, yes, et cetera. And
there's a big toboggan next to it and.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
The eighteen eighty four Tabogan slide that is one of
the oldest attractions because it has been built in eighteen
eighty four as a match so it was there before
the Fremont and last year they just have now a
new refrigerated the system, so that way you are sure
to have your slide early in December until March, because
(13:19):
like everywhere, even if we are well known for winter,
cold winter, we still have we have warmer winter for
the past year. And also sometimes it's days that are
raining and after it's getting cold again, so it was
harder for the slide. And now they have a great
system that makes you sure to have your slide with
(13:39):
the real taba again that you can go as fast
as seventy k oh really our wow? Yeah, So I
like the way I'm doing this. I'm screaming all the
way down.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Maybe you had a courage from a glass of cariboo
before you get.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
All right, that's why you're stabbing at the labush. You
have your caribou and you're ready for the eighteen eighty
four slide.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Is going to be excited to want to come to
Quebec city. Now, in Quebec in general, how could they
get information? What's the best place to plan a trip?
Maybe through Virtuoso, right Virtuoso.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, there's travel advisors that are well, they know the
the destination pretty well because it's been our fourty years
now that we're virtuoso. But I think that our website
is very like great, you have plenty of information. It's
Quebec that slash slash Yeah ce C I t e
(14:34):
like city dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
AI will get you there. Yeah, I want to go to.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
He I also it's a great Now I can like
what can I do for three days? But we also
have itinerary for three days, four days, five days outdoorsy
because you know that nature is everywhere those to Quebec.
So that I think that the website is a great start,
and after you can also contact us.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
We have all you have all the daily gates that
we are more than happy to help everybody that wants
to know more about Quebec.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Have you been to Michigan?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I've never been. No Detroit, No, I'm coming. You are
next September.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I have my flight our book because I have an
event with SATW conference.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Oh yeah, and I'll be there for September ten to
the fourteen.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Is that twenty five twenty six next month?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well thank you? Very interesting. What a lucky thing too.
We can extend the hospitality and you can welcome all
the Michiganders and Detroiter's. Yeah, took it. Back, and that
is absolutely fantastic. One other place you've been in the
United States that you like or dislike?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I don't dislike, but I really love when I went
to Philadelphia with my son.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Philadelphia, Yeah, with a.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Road trip with it interesting, Boston, New York, Philadelphia because
my son loves baseball, so in summer we do road
trips at the baseball game.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
So you went to Fenway Park, Yankee Stadia, and Chase Stadium. Yeah,
all in Philadelphia. Well there's a baseball you can see
a baseball game in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I know is causing me all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He wants to go to Detroit next next destination. So
he said, Mom, you will, you've been there. You'll go
on September and after we have to go together.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
So that's are in our plan. I'll see.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And also I have some people that I met during
the peewee Oh we didn't talk about the Pee Wee
International Pee Wee Hockey Tournament.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh, let's do that in a flash, because Detroit is
known as hockey town. Back in a flash. Hello out there,
We're on the air.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's hockey night tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Tension grows, the whistle blows and the puck goes down
the ice, the goalie jumps and the players bump. Then
the fans are go insane. Someone roars Bobby starts at
the good old hockey game. It's a good second. Very
(17:09):
one more two minute segment. We're continuing with Pascal Baldan,
who touched on the fact that she's coming to hockey
town that's Detroit.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yes, I'm coming to Detroit, and I had the chance
to welcome a family during the Peewee tournament that's the
international hockey tournament with kids of twelve years old and
so on that has been there for like more than
sixty seven years now, and two years ago I had
the chance to welcome some hockey player at my place
(17:39):
because that's the way that the tournament is that the
family are staying in the hotel and the kids are
staying a bill at family. And my kids were from Detroit,
so I will have the chance to go and see
them while I'll be around in September.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Look at that a cultural exchange and now then you'll
see them.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's I'm very excited. And my son is
still in contact with one of them. And that's also
why you want to go to visit Detroit because he
wants to see them and their place.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Well, let me ask you this. If you host young
hockey players in your house, do you make a rule
they cannot bring their hockey bag inside the house because
it's it doesn't well yes.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah, you have to say it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
No, we have to clean it up and we have
to make like I think that the clue is that
you have to have some dryer to make dryer sheets,
but dryer to to have the equipment dry.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, a machine to take it away.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But I have to be honest, it smell interesting during
the week that I already have my son that is
playing and with two other boys. It was interesting. That's
the word I have to say. But they were happy.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
That's that's all matters.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, you are interesting and Quebec is certainly interesting. And
thank you for the welcome. And it's beautiful to see
you here in Las Vegas at Virtue Wilso and thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Thank you so much, my good Ben, a pleasure for me.
Hop on to the hockey town.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It's a team that's been around all these years.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
My hole's as for my team away
Speaker 1 (19:15):
All escape easy here, neighb's what's sixty's man No Bextllent
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Well, we're already having some laughs here at Virtuoso twenty
twenty five in Las Vegas. It's Michael Patrick Shields. And
of course we're sort of going around the world and
you're going with us. Your vacation should begin with Virtuoso
Virtuoso dot com. And you're gonna have plenty of ideas
from me during these broadcasts. And we're going to go
east and a little bit north to our neighbors. Pascal
(00:29):
Bobon is with you and is with me from Kembec City.
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Nice to meet you too, Michael. I'm very happy to
be with you.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We were chuckling because you told me the translation of
your name from Quebecua or French to English.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, so my last name is so when you translated
is drink wine.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So no more secrets about it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I only wish we had a glass in front of
us right.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Now, later on that day today, for sure, but too
late to our in the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You will know this, and most people won't believe it,
but the last time I was in Quebec, I was
taken to a winery where they made wine with tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah. Oh, there's Amerto.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, I think that was oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
But you know that in the Olia Island now that
is about ten minutes from downtown Quebec city, we have
many wineries like that. They're doing great wine, the same
PI wineries won plenty of prices.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We also have cassis.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I don't know if you were aware that we have Cassius,
Cassius mona fits black currant liquors. And there are the wines.
They're in Sangria, vodka gin. So we have plenty of choices.
You can do the old tour of the island. It's
about sixty seven kilometer in total, and there's like more
(01:53):
than just wine. You know, you have a cheese factory,
you have chocolate factory.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You cannot do fruit speaking kind of things.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So there's a and it's so close to Quebec city,
so you have the boat ward, you have like the
old historical word the writage site in Old Quebec. And
in the meantime ten minutes drive, you're like in the
middle of the land and you can visit the farms
and everything.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Let me now it comes back to my mind something
else I drank when I was in Quebec. This was
on a different trip. It was called caribou.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Cariboo.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, this is more like a drink that we're taking
in the winter because you know, in Quebec we have
four seasons and in winter it can be a bit cold.
So when you drink cariboo, you're feeling really warm. And
that's a drink that we like, we are used to
drink during the winter carnival.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I don't know if you know the winter carnival.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's where I drank it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Okay, so that's where mainly we're drinking. But you can
there's a restaurant LaBouche and it's more like a sugar
shark style in the old Quebec that you can drink
caribou all year round and they are doing their own
cariboo and it's very good.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, I drank so much of this cariboo that I
saw a giant living snowman walking around the car.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, you've met banam so have you made like this?
The little dance with his legs that is just like they.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Can probably now seven.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It will turn seventy two years this year, so.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'm not the only one that'saw big white living snowman
like a pink elephant.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
No, you're not, but it's the oldest one, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And his name translates to.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
We just called it boma. We never like.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, but the word bonam, what would that mean? In English?
It's welcome or something like their happiness, isn't it happy? Man?
Good man?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Good man? No, it's like for the past year, like
we're just calling in the snowman. But it's more banam.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
They call it banam in a way in both languages
because it's banoma.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Now it's one hundred degrees in Las Vegas where we're
sitting right now. If you go to the winter carnival,
which in Quebec is in February, right, yes, it's decidedly
colder than one hundred degrees fahrenheit.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah. I'm not really good with fahrenheit. I have to
be honest, but it's old.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Say fahrenheit probably would be it's like sixty sixty would
be like it'd be like forty five here, wouldn't it celsius?
When it's one hundred double it in ad thirty?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I think something yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's you're good.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's cold though at the carnival.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, because it's colder. But I like to say that
there's no bad weather, there's bad clothing. So as long
as you have the right clothes and you have caribou
really close by, you're.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Like, you can have so much fun.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And that's why we have so many activities during winter
to make it fun. So that's where you can come
to go back to embrace winter and just enjoy. There's
like skating rink, cross country skiing, alpine skiing, sliding, like
you have all the winter sports. It's not like just
a destination for the winter carnival, but winter carnival with
(05:08):
the night parade.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It is very nice to explore.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It is, in my experience, one of the most charming
things I've ever done in my life. And okay, it's cold,
but that's part of the charm. As you suggest, I
would put it up with Dad Las Moertos in Mexico
down there where was a Mazatlan and the running of
the bulls. It is a world major event. And if
you're listening in Michigan right now and you can get
(05:33):
there in the winter, put it on your schedule because
it is so charming. I remember too, there was a well,
there was a Miss Carnival beauty pageant on the Friday night, okay,
and there was no bikini contesting.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
But you know that during the Winter Carnival, we do
have the snow bats every year and there's people there
are like wearing their oh yeah setting suits going.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Out the cold punch, Yeah, the cold punch, and every
year there's like a bunch of people that are doing
this kind of yeah, it's pretty cold this. I have
to be honest. I like winter. I love doing sports
in winter.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
But every time that I'm saying them doing this and
said no, this is not for me, I like, no, no, no,
I don't want to be like all the people watching me,
like the in the snow. But that's an event that
is part of the Winter Carnival, like the ice Canny Waves,
the ice culture and everything. So the batting, like the
(06:36):
bad snow snow, it's it's every year and there's people
that have been there for years. They are here, they
are at the event every year enjoying this kind of craziness.
But now it's pretty popular, like the cold plant. So
it's been seventy years that they were doing this in Quebec,
(06:59):
but now everybody are even they are buying their own
bad at home to.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Do, like oh, yeah, ask, yeah, well, amazing me. You
can tell by Pascal's voice when you go to Quebec
it's not going to be like when you go to Toronto.
It's going to be a much more French affair right
along the Saint Lawrence River. And if you don't want
to fly across the ocean and you want to have
that kind of romantic French experience, is a good choice,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yes, it's a very good choice.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And with the US dollar right now, it's also very
nice because your dollar is stronger than us, so it's
it can be a great vacation and it's great for
your dollar too.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And we are we want you to come. You will
be well welcome. That's the word that I want you
to keep you that.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's a little crafty what you're saying there. There's a
little bit of sensitivity.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
A little bit, but it's like we want the Americans
that are coming. We love you, and we just want
you to be back, and don't be scared. You will
be well served.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And even if we have.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Our French accent mel c. And you should know too
that the US ambassador to Canada right now is a
man called Pete Hookstro who is from Michigan. He was
a congressman from Michigan. He appears on my program regularly,
so we have a nice connection there. Oh, this is
good to know, Pete Hookstro. If you need the ambassador,
you let me know.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Okay, thank you, Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And what about Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau? Have they
been at the Fairmont canoodling?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But they were in Montreal and I'm based in Quebec City,
so I don't have any massive to say.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Maybe they will come to the Ice Hotel this winter
and eat things up.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
They might, because you know that there's a new Ice
restaurant that's just started last year and it's back for
three years in a row. And that's the Fermont that
is doing the guttering. And you can eat in the
Ice restaurant at the Ice Hotel. That's an experience.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
We'll continue with the details of that in a flash.
Welcome back to Warm Las Vegas and the Virtual Also
Travel Conference. Pascal Boon is the well spokesperson for Quebec City.
(09:16):
Her name means drink wine and from the Caribou is
the wine that will warm you up. She wasn't kidding, though.
There is a hotel Maid and a restaurant. You say
entirely of ice.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I stayed in the Ice hotel two years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Here you alone.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I was with a friend of mine, but a girl.
So I was like sleeping on my sleeping bag.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You have to sleep in a sleeping bag, don't you.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But you always have a real room, I have to say,
in the hotel, the real hotel next to the IS hotel.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So that's where you put your luggage in.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You can take your shower and everything, and you're you're
moving to your Is Hotel room just at the last
minute to sleep, and they're bringing you your sleeping bag
after nine pm.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The bed is made of ice, no.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Because there's no bed you like the bed is that? Yes,
it's bad. Yeah, that's ice. But you have a real
mattress on top of it. And the sleeping bag, a
sleeping bag that is minus thirty or minus forty degrees celsius.
So it's very to be honest, I was like a bit,
I was not quite sure, And now I did it,
(10:24):
and I can say that I have the best sleep
ever because it's a bit cool. There's no sounds, and
it's dark and it's fresh, so you really you just
have to stay inside your sleeping bag.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But as long as you're sleep in your sleeping bag,
you have a really good sleep.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Funny thing is there's a bar in there too.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, the big, the huge ice bar. When you have
your your drink in ice glass.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Is made of ice.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes, And you can also do a kind of workshops
that you can do your own glass because you know
it's a it's a piece of ice, and you have
a machine that make the hole.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And oh and you can do your own ice ice.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Last, I wonder if you could get a frozen margarita
in an ice hotel.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Margarita could be possible.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It's they have special cocktails, but not margarita because it's
maybe too complicated and they.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Have so many people. So do you have special drinks
but with different alcohol?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You can get ice wine? I bet for sure yes.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
And you have the as I mentioned the ice restaurant
that was a new.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Restaurant this my last winter, and that's the Fermont chateau
that was in charge and they were still in charge
of the gathering at the Ice restaurant. And when you
get in the Ice restaurant, you receive champagne in a
bigger glass of ice, but it's a kind of you
(11:56):
know so, and that's.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
The start of your your evening. It's with a champagne
on the sparking wine on the ice glass.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Same. You think the hotel you mentioned is the castle
sort of historic hotel that's right looking over the river
and over the village the old Quebec.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You're talking about Fermont Chateaufhonac. Yes, that's the famous Chateau
Phonac that is one of the most photographed hotel in
the world, with six hundred or eight i think rooms
in total. But it's an iconic hotel and that's the
building that you can see from almost everywhere in Quebec,
(12:36):
you know, from the old town, even from the.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Orleans Island, you.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Can't miss this huge building that is the hotel that
has been there for years now.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
It's sixteen.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, world leaders stay there, celebrity, yes, et cetera. And
there's a big toboggan next to it and.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
The eighteen eighty four Tabogan slide that is one of
the oldest attractions because it has been built in eighteen
eighty four as a match so it was there before
the Fremont and last year they just have now a
new refrigerated the system, so that way you are sure
to have your slide early in December until March, because
(13:19):
like everywhere, even if we are well known for winter,
cold winter, we still have we have warmer winter for
the past year. And also sometimes it's days that are
raining and after it's getting cold again, so it was
harder for the slide. And now they have a great
system that makes you sure to have your slide with
(13:39):
the real taba again that you can go as fast
as seventy k oh really our wow? Yeah, So I
like the way I'm doing this. I'm screaming all the
way down.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Maybe you had a courage from a glass of cariboo
before you get.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
All right, that's why you're stabbing at the labush. You
have your caribou and you're ready for the eighteen eighty
four slide.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Is going to be excited to want to come to
Quebec city. Now, in Quebec in general, how could they
get information? What's the best place to plan a trip?
Maybe through Virtuoso, right Virtuoso.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, there's travel advisors that are well, they know the
the destination pretty well because it's been our fourty years
now that we're virtuoso. But I think that our website
is very like great, you have plenty of information. It's
Quebec that slash slash Yeah ce C I t e
(14:34):
like city dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
AI will get you there. Yeah, I want to go to.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
He I also it's a great Now I can like
what can I do for three days? But we also
have itinerary for three days, four days, five days outdoorsy
because you know that nature is everywhere those to Quebec.
So that I think that the website is a great start,
and after you can also contact us.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
We have all you have all the daily gates that
we are more than happy to help everybody that wants
to know more about Quebec.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Have you been to Michigan?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I've never been. No Detroit, No, I'm coming. You are
next September.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I have my flight our book because I have an
event with SATW conference.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Oh yeah, and I'll be there for September ten to
the fourteen.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Is that twenty five twenty six next month?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well thank you? Very interesting. What a lucky thing too.
We can extend the hospitality and you can welcome all
the Michiganders and Detroiter's. Yeah, took it. Back, and that
is absolutely fantastic. One other place you've been in the
United States that you like or dislike?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I don't dislike, but I really love when I went
to Philadelphia with my son.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Philadelphia, Yeah, with a.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Road trip with it interesting, Boston, New York, Philadelphia because
my son loves baseball, so in summer we do road
trips at the baseball game.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
So you went to Fenway Park, Yankee Stadia, and Chase Stadium. Yeah,
all in Philadelphia. Well there's a baseball you can see
a baseball game in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I know is causing me all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He wants to go to Detroit next next destination. So
he said, Mom, you will, you've been there. You'll go
on September and after we have to go together.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
So that's are in our plan. I'll see.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And also I have some people that I met during
the peewee Oh we didn't talk about the Pee Wee
International Pee Wee Hockey Tournament.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh, let's do that in a flash, because Detroit is
known as hockey town. Back in a flash. Hello out there,
We're on the air.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's hockey night tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Tension grows, the whistle blows and the puck goes down
the ice, the goalie jumps and the players bump. Then
the fans are go insane. Someone roars Bobby starts at
the good old hockey game. It's a good second. Very
(17:09):
one more two minute segment. We're continuing with Pascal Baldan,
who touched on the fact that she's coming to hockey
town that's Detroit.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yes, I'm coming to Detroit, and I had the chance
to welcome a family during the Peewee tournament that's the
international hockey tournament with kids of twelve years old and
so on that has been there for like more than
sixty seven years now, and two years ago I had
the chance to welcome some hockey player at my place
(17:39):
because that's the way that the tournament is that the
family are staying in the hotel and the kids are
staying a bill at family. And my kids were from Detroit,
so I will have the chance to go and see
them while I'll be around in September.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Look at that a cultural exchange and now then you'll
see them.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's I'm very excited. And my son is
still in contact with one of them. And that's also
why you want to go to visit Detroit because he
wants to see them and their place.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Well, let me ask you this. If you host young
hockey players in your house, do you make a rule
they cannot bring their hockey bag inside the house because
it's it doesn't well yes.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah, you have to say it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
No, we have to clean it up and we have
to make like I think that the clue is that
you have to have some dryer to make dryer sheets,
but dryer to to have the equipment dry.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, a machine to take it away.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But I have to be honest, it smell interesting during
the week that I already have my son that is
playing and with two other boys. It was interesting. That's
the word I have to say. But they were happy.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
That's that's all matters.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, you are interesting and Quebec is certainly interesting. And
thank you for the welcome. And it's beautiful to see
you here in Las Vegas at Virtue Wilso and thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Thank you so much, my good Ben, a pleasure for me.
Hop on to the hockey town.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It's a team that's been around all these years.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
My hole's as for my team away
Speaker 1 (19:15):
All escape easy here, neighb's what's sixty's man No Bextllent
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