We started our penultimate day on our Nova Scotia adventure by going to the Cows manufacturing plant where they make cheese, most recently butter, and most important what is considered by a number of sources the best ice cream in the world, www.cows.ca. We took the tour along with a number of other visitors, including [...]
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Today was our transition from the first part of our trip, in Cape Breton Island, to Prince Edwards Island. Interestingly when we asked people in Cape Breton about PEI, they almost always said that it was pretty nice but they rarely visited there. One person described PEI as a potato field surrounded by water which [...]
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Today had two main parts to it, the Alexander Grahme Bell museum and our trip around much of the Cabot Trail. To finish off a comment on our stay in Baddeck, a lovely community on the shore of a truly beautiful lake, Bras D’Or, our B&B we stayed in called the Water’s Edge Inn, was [...]
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Ellen had long expressed an interest in visiting Prince Edwards Island, the site of the Anne of Green Gables stories, and nearly Nova Scotia. I had always heard it was a very beautiful place to visit, the high’s were going to be in the 70′s, not the 90′s, and going would be consistent with my [...]
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