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By Cross Canada 07
May 29th 2007

Prince Edward Island

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Welcome to PEI
Wood Islands Lighthouse

PEI!! We love you!!! We arrived in PEI after cycling 81 kms to get to the ferry. We had planned to find a nice place to camp on the other side of the water in PEI and call it a day until we arrived there...it was warm, breeze-less, hill-less, green; it was absolutely amazing and had Brad and I wondering how a 70 minute ferry ride could bring us from a grey fisherman's land to lush green paradise!! We were so pumped we eneded up cycling another 36 km before arriving in Orwell. Orwell is a little historic town that [View Full Entry]

By The Maple moon
May 24th 2007

Anne Shirley and lobsters

North America » Canada » Prince Edward Island » Charlottetown

After the bus journey from Halifax to PEI, we've now decided that it's a rubbish way to travel and should not be encouraged. It had been cold in Halifax but we were still unprepared for snow the first evening in Charlottetown! And there wasn't even a cup of 'steeped tea' to be had to warm us up. Steeped tea by the way is the 'new' thing to have chez Tim Horton's (a cross between a healthy McDonalds and a baker's). In essence it's tea that has been left in the pot for too long but presumably is being sold in litres [View Full Entry]

By EllaBellaOla
January 1st 2007

First Blog Entry

North America » Canada » Prince Edward Island » Charlottetown

Hey everyone! Welcome to my blog - this will be a short one. I'm half-way through my first year at Dalhousie Medical School. Its everything you would expect - interesting, intense, occassionally overwhelming, and much more! I completed my first elective in Anaesthesia and got to witness so many amazing surgeries - mostly heart surgeries, everything from quadruple bipasses to valve replacements, but also some cosmetic surgeries, including face lift, breast implant & reconstruction, eyelid lift/chin tuck and jaw reconstruction. All of these were way more invasive than I had expected, its ama [View Full Entry]

By Grey haired nomads
August 3rd 2006

Motorhome News from North America 18

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The eight mile bridge on to PEI

Motorhome News from North America 18 21st - 28th July 2006 Prince Edward Island Alrighty, let’s get started. An eight-mile bridge separates Prince Edward Island from the New Brunswick mainland, sweeping like a giant snake across the wide Northumberland Strait. 140 miles long east to west, and up to 40miles across, PEI is home to 170,000 people who would doubtless never dream of living anywhere else on earth. The short summers are mild and sunny, the rolling fields so green and fertile and the ever present sea flows gently back and forth on shallow shores where the Micmac [View Full Entry]

By clelacheur
July 30th 2006

Family Fun

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The Famous Cow outside of Cow's

After a brief overnight stint in Toronto and a quick visit with my Aunt and Uncle and friends Shemina and Alex, I made my way to the home of the potato, red dirt, and Anne of Green Gables. My dad picked me up at the airport and despite having to wait for me for over an hour due to a delay on the Toronto end in an airport that makes Edmonton International look like Heathrow, he was in good spirits when I got off, as it’s the first time we’ve seen each other in six months! Surprisingly, he was also in [View Full Entry]

By Kcaj
July 22nd 2006

Baddeck to PEI

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Havre-Boucher

Odometer: 37063km For the most part, today's ride just retraced my previous trip back down to Antigonish and New Glasgow, NS. From there I went to the ferry at Caribou to go to PEI. I planned to spend a day and two evenings in PEI, but that was not to be. On my way to Antigonish, I turned off the main highway to take the old road that wound along the coast. At Havre-Bouche I stopped in to Gary's Quick Mart and met Gary. He is the brother-in-law of some friends of ours and they suggested I look him up. Unfortunately [View Full Entry]

By LeighSwenson
July 17th 2006

Happy Reunions on the East Coast

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Green Meets Red Meets Blue

Had we known it was such a long drive from Halifax airport to Charlottetown we would never have dreamed of asking our friend Mitch to drive up to meet us and chauffeur us back down. After almost an hour and a half in the car I enquired as to how much further it was to Charlettetown and Mitch replied we were almost half way there. "Yeah, right! When are we really gonna be there?" I scoffed. "No, really. We're about half way there." "Your kidding?" "No, I'm not." He wasn't. Well, we'd look on the map and there'd barely been an [View Full Entry]

By Bothan Taistil
June 19th 2006

Bob Finds a Brewery

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On tap at Gahan Brewery
Bob left a rolling Rock and a Iron City can which they put on the shelf behind the bar. so it you are ever here tell them you know the clown that left them

June 19, 2006 This is an organization day, with this many days of the road it is time to clean the Bothan, shop, etc. We got to the Art Museum in the PM, a small but interesting collection. We discovered the Gahan House Brewery and, of course, had a sample. Tonight is the premier performance of Anne of Green Gables. Although most of the seats were sold out, we managed to get two balcony seats. Bob was a good sport, with his long legs bent up he managed to get through the performance, I just had to unpretzel him at the [View Full Entry]

The Gahan Brewery, right next to the Basilica

By Bothan Taistil
June 18th 2006

Where Canada Began

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Harbour Hippo, Charlottetown, PEI

Up early and on our bike over the bridge to Charlottetown we go. The Basilica of St. Dunstan had an 8:30 mass, which we attended. The basilica is known for twin gothic spires, and impressive altar and fine Italian murals. The atmosphere was formal and conservative, oh well. Charlottetown is where Canada began. In 1864 the colonial capital hosted a Charlottetown Conference, which led to the establishment of the Dominion of Canada. We visited Province House National Historic Site and saw a video recounting the conference of 1864. Charlottetown is the largest city on Prince Edward Island [View Full Entry]

View from Harbour Hippo on the Hillsboro River

By Bothan Taistil
June 17th 2006

Enjoying PEI

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Red Point Provincial Park

We were up early and took a long walk along the beach before breakfast. Each beach seems to have unique features, this one has less rocks and more white sand, with the red cliffs as a backdrop and then lush green fields, just lovely. We returned to Souris harbor to see a huge sailboat that came in yesterday. It is from NJ and is used to teach women sailing skills and teamwork. While checking out the marina we noticed a ferry coming in from Madeleine. We decided to check out what is at Madeleine and is it worth a trip? Georgetown [View Full Entry]

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