Month: June 2016

  • Malpeque

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    Malpeque

    Yesterday had one objective. Have oysters in Malpeque. The village is famous for these little molluscs. They come in two sizes: small and large and are served in two portions: a half dozen and 1 dozen. I had 2 dozen. They were good. 

  • Miscouche

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    Miscouche

    Yesterday was a gentle day, we drove north from Charlottetown to Prince Edward Island National Park, and then along the Gulf Shore Parkway to Green Gables and then south to Miscouche to spend the night. Our goal for the coastal drive was to find the red sandstone cliffs facing the sea we recalled from our…

  • Northshore

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    Northshore

    Yesterday we drove from Charlottetown to East Point, and then along the North Shore of the Island to Greenwich and the back to Charlottetown.   We climbed to the top of the lighthouse at East Point which gave us a view of the Point and beaches.  On the North Shore we stopped into the fishing…

  • Charlottetown

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    Charlottetown

    We left Chéticamp Nova Scotia fairly early and drove about 6 hours to Charlottetown PEI.  We decided to cross over to PEI on the Confederation Bridge.  While there is a ferry service to the island,  that was closer, co-ordinating with the schedule proved more cumbersome than necessary so we drove the extra distance. The toll for…

  • 10 Years

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    June 23, 2015 marked the 10th anniversary of this blog.  I missed it. We were in Poland.  So this is the 11th anniversary.    May be some sort of retrospective is in order; but that seems presumptuous.   So I’ll leave this simple entry to note the event.