Blogs from Nova Scotia, Canada, North America - page 3

Le 26 novembre 2021, Après un autre doux réveil sans entendre la rengaine matinale de nos filles, nous partons déjeuner dans un adorable petit café à deux pas de notre hébergement, avec une jolie vue sur le port qui plus est. Nous faisons ensuite notre première découverte de Lunenburg la colorée. Comme ce village de poche est joli! Partout, de petites boutiques d'artisanat et de souvenirs, des bouquineries et des cafés douillets. En haute saison touristique, ça doit être très vivant comme endroit! Nous faisons un tour dans le port du village. Y est amarré le célèbre Bluenose II, le voilier que l'on retrouve imprimé sur les pièces de 10 cents. En haute saison, il est même possible d'y faire une croisière, mais cette activité est très prisée, mieux vaut réserver plusieurs mois à l'avance. Pour ... read more

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We did a short tour of Sydney. We found 2 old houses to tour. One was built in 1786 and the other a year later. They are both decorated with furniture from that era and we had docents in costume show us around. We went by 2 old churches in the neighborhood, but they were closed. A lot of the town stays closed this time of year until a cruise ship comes in. We found a small museum about Sydney and looked at that. It turns out that Sydney had a steel mill that was the largest in North America for a while. It slowed down after the war and closed in the 60's. We still had a lot of time left in the day so we found a miner's museum about a 30 minute drive ... read more

Day 8: Today dawned sunny and beautiful so we decided to take a ride about 30 miles away to Peggy's Cove. But...then we noticed we'd be going right by Fairview Cemetery, where many of the Titanic graves are so... we decided to go there first. Going in and out of the city we were crossing toll bridges at $1 per crossing. We didn't have a dollar coin this time, but guess what w... read more

So, I know its been a while, but we had lousy internet for 3 days and I couldn't get anything out. We are still in Nova Scotia. Tomorrow we drive into New Brunswick. When we flew from Newfoundland to Nova Scotia I got a good view of the country. It is heavily wooded and has hundreds of lakes. On the ground there is no way you could go for a walk in the woods because it is so thick. Also there are hundreds of coves along the coast. Some are a hundred yards deep and others go on for up to a mile. We left Lunenburg on Thursday and stopped off at Blue Rock Cove. Its another small fishing village. It has a lot of slate by the water, hence the name. We then drove to ... read more