Canada 2019

We would have missed this pretty little town of we'd kept to our plans ......it's the home of Acadia University where lots of our kids from Bermuda went on to. Another Victorian home Acadia Uni Quite a lot of drinking places!

A glorious morning as we left the best (and best value - Bob) B & B on our trip.  There was quite a heavy frost but the sun soon felt warm. We drove through stunning landscape, with foliage which could only be described as blazing in the sunshine, all the way to Truro.  Belgravia House 1903 Another historic home, furnished and decorated in keeping with its history.  Breakfast was served on bone china with cut glass glasses and silver serving plates.  The food lived up to the place settings: blueberry juice, strawberries, raspberries, homemade yoghurt,  muesli and “muffins” ( zuchini and blueberry) followed by eggs florentine.....far too much for us! Truro has one famous site and that's a huge park, right down town.  We walked the 2 k path to a waterfall but there was barely a trickle of water, despite the recent rainy weather. I wasn't feeling too chipper this day so we asked if we could stay an extra day and decided to cut out the ...

My mistake:  our hosts have 7 children!  (2 are from his first marriage) It rained all day on Friday.  We drove to the capital of PEI and joined crowds of bedraggled tourists off the cruise ship in the harbour, wandering round the basilica and small water-side area.  The “city” has only 22,000 residents so has few shops in its downtown area.  The residential areas have many attractive houses and we walked the board-walk round the harbour until the chill wind drove us into a cafe. Saturday also started wet but it gradually cleared up, although still chilly.  Our host, James, drew an itinerary round the central and western part of the island which included a Portuguese- owned vineyard, stops along the coast and a recommended restaurant in a converted station.  We enjoyed it all.....apart from long winters this seems a very pleasant place to live. Charlottetown, the capital

The weather has become very unsettled as a result of the tropical storms in the Atlantic.  It meant our drive round the second half of the Cabot Trail was dogged by rain and low clouds for most of its length so I took almost no photos. We spent the night in a lovely B and B in Pictou. , Bob chose it as it's only 10 minutes from the ferry over to Prince Edward Island which we caught this morning.  The crossing takes 70 mins and the sea was quite choppy but it's a fair sized boat so we felt little motion. The landscape on PEI is  undramatic but pretty with rolling hills and many farms, both dairy and arable.  Once again Bob has chosen well and our B and B in New Glasgow is very comfortable with a large room, massive bed, fridge, microwave, tea, coffee, kitkats etc. Breakfasts look good and include eggs benedict - my favourite.  We can even have it in our room if we choose. Our hosts are a young couple with 5 children who were very welcoming.