First Couch Surfer at new place!

This weekend I had the opportunity to host my first couch surfer in Quebec city! For those who don't know couchsurfing.org is a really cool website where you can travel the world for free by surfing on people's couches in the city you are visiting. For the people hosting (like me), we get to meet someone new from another culture and show them the local joints and spots that you wouldn't see if you were a tourist. Also most hosters have been a surfer at one point or another so it is also about paying it forward.

I first feel in love with the idea of couch surfing when I was in Korea. One of my well traveled Irish friends told me about it and I hosted a couple of people in Korea. Then when I came back to Canada I had the opportunity to surf in a lot of new places like Montreal, Couberg etc. Every time the experience has been wonderful. So I wanted to pay it forward.

My surfer Chih-Yu is from Taiwan and he came here to attend a world scout jamboree. Which is like a grown up version of boy scouts. There are many countries represented and after the meeting he is now travelling across Canada with the money he has saved up over three years.

We became fast friends and over Saturday and Sunday I took him to many places. Our first stop was the Plains of Abraham where coincidentally there was a historical reenactment going on and we got to see people fire muskets, cannons and a mock duel. Then we walked around old Quebec and splurged on some roast duck, foie gras, and rabbit legs. At night time Yu broke out his analog cameras and taught me a lot about photography. He said he is going to send me some of his pictures - I can't wait!

Peace from Quebec.

My couchsurfer using his analog camera to take some night shots.

My friend Rebecca who seems to loves to climb on top of big black things haha.

Really expensive dinner, first time eating rabbit -  pretty good.

:D

Celtic festival - strongman games

We got to catch an historical reenactment

Inside the fortification walls