Tag: prince edwards island
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Ellen & Dan’s Excellent Adventure in Nova Scotia – Day 7
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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Ellen & Dan’s Excellent Adventure in Nova Scotia – Day 6
Today was Anne of Green Gables all day, all the time. For those of you who haven’t read the books (I haven’t) nor seen the TV shows/movies (I only vaguely remember them) it might be a wonder that a fictional character has this kind of impact. I think that LM Montgomery, who wrote the books,…
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Ellen & Dan’s Excellent Adventure in Nova Scotia – Day 5
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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Ellen & Dan’s Excellent Adventures in Nova Scotia – Day 4
Tuesday was a leisurely day starting in Ingonish on the East side of Cape Breton about half-way down the coast, completing the loop we started yesterday, swinging back in a circle through Baddeck and ending up in the early afternoon in Mabou, at the bottom of the west side of Cape Breton. The Lantern Inn…
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Ellen and Dan’s Excellent Adventure in Nova Scotia – Day 1
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…