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Published: November 5th 2013
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multicolored house
They must REALLY like lots of colors. Wonder if they're going to do the whole house this way? Hi, All --
First of all, I don't went to confuse you. We've been home for over two weeks. During the last half of our trip we had almost no Wifi connections so I couldn't send anything out on the internet. And after we got home, we had a lot of stuff to do. So here is my
late blog of Iles de la Madeleine, a most magical place. Paula
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In the 13 years Bob and I have been traveling, we found the Iles de la Madeleine (Magdalene Islands in English) to be the most enchanting, picturesque place we’ve visited in the eastern half of North America. We’ve spent the past five days here and it’s been quite a delightful experience. I say that even though we had gale winds for a couple of days and put off our departure for a day to get a smoother ferry ride back to Prince Edward Island. (The following seas on the ferry were still 8 - 10 feet high.)
Bob happened to find out about the Magdalene Islands by following a dotted line indicating a ferry route from a Prince Edward Island
map and was intrigued. He then began reading about the Iles de la Madeleine on the internet and became even more intrigued. So here we are.
This is not a tourist area, amazingly, at least not this time of year. We’ve driven well over five hundred miles from end to end of the islands and we haven’t seen a single license plate from the US. We’ve seen a few from New Brunswick, but the rest are Quebec plates. There are probably a number of tourists from other parts of Canada in the summer, but I suspect that US visitors are still rare.
The language here is French as this is part of Quebec; many residents don’t speak any English. However, my two years scant years of high school French and a lot of smiling and gesturing from both of us – plus good will and a sense of humor on the part of residents – have worked well to make our interactions workable and pleasant.
This island chain is 60 miles long and we’ve driven it from end to end, round trip, four times, plus a lot of side trips. We’ve done so much driving because our
camp ground, the last one open for the season, was at the far eastern end of the archipelago and the town and the artists' island were at the other end. And now we’ve probably seen more of these Islands than some of the residents.
It will take me perhaps three or four blogs to cover this amazing place, so I'm going to devote this first blog to the Island's brightly colored houses, one of the more charming features of this place. Also, the blog will give you a sense of the geography. Note that a lot of the houses are quite small. We don't see many big houses anywhere in Canada.
This blog is an easy place for me to begin as I took thousands of photos that I still need to cull through and houses are simple. More coming. Don't forget you can double click on any of the photos to see the full photo. Then you can navigate back and forth using the "arrows" in the upper left and right corners.
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Randy Caldwell
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wow
Since I don't travel too much it is great to see everything thru your pictures,thank you...Randy