Teddy Bears

Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada This place is special and this trip has been planned on the time we wanted to spend in Bella Coola. We don’t actually stay in Bella Coola, but in the valley which is at the end of Highway 20 aka the Freedom Road after descending the Heckman Pass otherwise known […]

2016 Slideshows

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The Canadian Fur Trade

Montréal, Québec 4-7 August 2016 The first thing you notice about Montréal is the skyscraper buildings. We drove into the city but couldn’t fit into any of the underground carparks, so we had to go down to a carpark by the docks. The streets in the old part of the city are still cobblestone and […]

Time to dust off my French

Québec While we were in New Brunswick, all the road signs had been in English and French. Now that we were in Québec. Oo, la la. It’s all in French. It’s like you’ve jumped countries but didn’t have to present your passport. Lindsay was saying that they should have bilingual signs, it’s not like everyone […]

One thing often leads to another

Alexander Graham Bell Museum Baddeck, Nova Scotia On our way to Cape Breton, we stopped off in Baddeck to see the Graham Bell Museum. The Bell Family How often do you hear that they found that something worked while taking medication for something else. Quite a bit. Alexander Graham Bell is known for inventing the […]

The Cabot Trail

Cape Breton Highlands National Park, NS 25/7/16-30/7/16 The Cabot Trail As usual, when we need to go somewhere we put the address in our GPS and go. Most of the time this works well. But sometimes it thinks it’s doing us a favour by taking the quickest or shortest route. On the way to Chéticamp, […]

The History of the Fortress of Louisbourg

Louisbourg, Nova Scotia If you are up to it, here is the long version …. I’m not sure how accurate it is, but it makes a good story. In 1715 the French lose their fishing bases in Newfoundland and Acadia (Nova Scotia) with the war that ends the Spanish secession. They receive two islands – […]

Stepping back into the C18th

Louisbourg, Nova Scotia 23 July 2016 From Halifax we drove to Sydney, Nova Scotia. We had good roads, with three lanes, one for each way and a third that alternated as a passing lane for each way. Louisbourg Lighthouse in the fog Louisbourg is about a 40 minute drive from Sydney. I knew there was […]

The impenetrable fort

Halifax, Nova Scotia 22 July 2016 From Peggy’s Cove it was only an hour to Halifax. We had to cross the Macdonald Bridge so had pay the modest toll of $C1.75 for 4 axles, it’s only $1 for a car. I had wanted to photograph the bridge but they had blocked off the pedestrian crossing […]

Everyone comes to see the lighhouse

Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia 20 July 2016 Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse From Lunenburg we drove about an hour to Peggy’s Cove. A pretty little seaside village who survives on fishing and tourism from the lighthouse. We went there during the day, at dusk and at dawn. There are lots of tourists there, all having their photo […]