Blogs from Caraquet, New Brunswick, Canada, North America

Geo: 47.7911, -64.9523The rain didn't stop pouring all day on Peter's birthday. It was a long seven hour drive to the wilds of New Brunswick at Caraquet, but at least we stayed dry. When we compained about the cold wind and steely cloud in Quebec we were told that 5 degrees is nothing. It gets down to Minus 60 celsius in Winter and is often - 30 degrees, and somebody said 'at least its not raining' which it then proceeded to do for the next 2 days. So we're getting good impression of how short the summer is here and winter is setting in. We should therfore be more grateful I suppose for the gulf stream which keeps England much milder on a similar latitide. Looking forward to going South from now on. The hotel does ... read more

We wanted to time our visit to Caraquet to coincide with the Festival Acadien de Caraquet. It is their 50thyear for having the festival. Even though we don’t understand French enough to comprehend the lyrics to songs, we hoped to still enjoy the experience. We did stop at the local visitor’s center and asked for some guidance. They were helpful in showing us some free events and one that had some reggae English music. The other thing we wanted to do while in Caraquet was to tour the Village Historique Acadien. This year they are celebrating their 35th anniversary. The Village is huge! Fortunately the admission is good for 2 days. We toured about 2/3 on the first day and then the remainder on the second day with time for revisiting some of the buildings from ... read more

For our last day at the cottage, we spent the day at the Acadian Village. It was a nice sunny day, although the wind was chilly, so it was a great day for exploring a historic park. This is a huge historic park that displays the way of life of the Acadian people (maritime French Canadians), from about 1775 through to the mid 1900’s. All the costumed interpreters are going about their typical day as you go through and they explain to you what they are doing. It was much like the Ukranian Village near Edmonton. It was really well done. Paul enjoyed going into each of the houses and other buildings to see what they were doing. Marc liked feeding the animals. At the oldest house, the fellow actually let the boys come into the ... read more