Andrew and Steve

Holy Cow what a beautiful City.  There is tonnes and tonnes of history in this city.  It is quite incredible indeed.

 

We walked up to “Old Quebec” where all the buildings are totally vintage and it has the real feel of an old european city.  There were a lot of touristy chachki shops and cobblestone [...]

  

It has been no problem that we do not speak French at any of the places we have been, although its fun to try speaking french and getting the “there, there, isn’t that sweet that you tried” look from people who then say “I speak the English, ‘ow can I ‘elp you?”

The service industry [...]

It was a lazy day for us today. We slept in until about 10:00am local time and didn’t get on the road until noon. We travelled about 45 minutes to Bathurst, NB where we had an “Acadian Breakfast” at the “Dixie Lee” which seems to be a very common chain. The New Brunswickians are [...]

This morning we woke and were served a delicious breakfast by our hosts at the Evening Primrose.  Then we were off to explore the island.

We started by renting a couple of bicycles in Charlottetown and rode around the city checking out all the hot spots.  Charlottetown has a nice boardwalk that runs [...]

We started the day off with the alarm clock going off at 6:30am. I guess the last guest left it set to that time, though I’m not sure why we didn’t notice it on our first day in the hotel. Steve thought it was a conspiracy of the housekeeping staff to wake people up [...]

We awoke this morning to the rapping of the housekeeping staff on the door. It was 10:00am after all, but it seemed like 5:00am our time. We dragged our bodies out of bed and headed out to explore Halifax.

We walked 18 blocks to a restaurant that had a pub on the top floor. We [...]

 

Click on the map above to see an overview of our route.