Rodd Charlottetown

We awake early after a rough stormy night at sea. Spray washed all the way onto our balcony up on Deck 11 but the ship must have a good crew and a good design as the trip is quite smooth. It is misty and trying to snow as we cruise past expensive house situated on the red sand beaches of PEI. We decided to check out an Anne shop, a knitting shop then a shopping centre. A large passenger facility is located immediately ...

Die Insel hat drei 'Rundfahrten' zu bieten. Den North Cape Coastal Drive, welche wie der Name sagt, den Norden der Insel abdeckt. Den Central Coastal Drive, für die Mitte sowie den East Coastal Drive für den Osten. <br><br>Wir machten uns auf den Weg, um den East Coastal Drive zu erkunden. Als erstes legten wir bei Greenwich National Park einen Stopp ein. Dieser ist er seit 1998 Teil des Nationalparkes. Der Dünenweg wurde uns im Reiseführer empfohlen. Die Holzplankenwege f ...

... nse machen sich für den Abflug Richtung Süden bereit und sammeln sich. Wieviele Gänse angeflogen kamen, wissen wir nicht, es waren seeeeehr viele!<br><br>Im kleinen Fischerdörfchen North Rustico Harbour machten wir am Mittag einen Zwischenhalt. Leider war hier, wie an vielen Orten auf der Insel, bereits fast alles geschlossen. Die Hauptsaison ist ...

... bread (a skill mastered by Axel after coming to Canada but done in the traditional German style).<br><br>Next visit was &#8216;Province House&#8217; where we learned more about the role Charlottetown played in the birth of Canada. Province House, built in the early 1800&#8217;s, continues to act as the PEI legislature to this day. It was here that the leaders of the areas which later became the founding provinces met ...

... and drove off. When we came back to the eighteenth green a couple of hours later the crows had somehow retrieved the apple from the bin and were just finishing the remains.<br><br>The seventeenth hole at Crowbush is a design never seen before. You climb about thirty feet up to the top of a sand dune to get to the tee box. From this vantage you can just make out the top of the flag on the seventeenth green waving above the intervening herbage from another dune ...

... LMM&#8217;s writings. Reading these I came to understand why I had never read anything by Miss Montgomery, but it was nice to see our national taxes going to support something that meant so much to others.<br><br>Cavendish is to PEI what Clifton Hill is to Niagara Falls. There is a Ripley&#8217;s Believe It Or Not museum, a place where you can get your picture taken in period costume and various theme and thrill parks, including a &#8220;Marco Polo Land&#8221 ...

... novel &#8216;Anne of Green Gables&#8217;. It was OK, but I guess because I haven&#8217;t read the book, I didn&#8217;t appreciate it as much.<br><br>And then we were off on our way back to Halifax. Stopped for lunch just before Confederation Bridge and then on the New Brunswick side of the bridge so we could get some good photos. It&#8217;s the longest bridge in the world, 12kms long, takes around 8 minutes to cross. It&#8217;s not particularly fancy looking, just a feat of ...

... only one on the island. It has been around for 14 years and it looked like a popular stop for people. Sampled a few wines and we bought a couple of bottles. Our overnight stay was at the Northumberland Provincial Campsite - nothing too exciting. The following morning, we headed out early to catch the ferry to Nova Scotia.

... 3 little girls on a podium doing Irish dancing. Pushy showbiz Dad was doing the music, and couple with the pink suitcase open invitingly on the side for tips, the effect was mind-boggingly twee. Lots of old Americans stood around remarking how cute it was while I ran screaming from the scene. Walking through the residential area to the city centre, it all seemed very peaceful. Every few blocks there seemed to be a large open space with trees and grass and most houses had ...

We caught the ferry across to Prince Edward Island. Sweeping green grassy hills, whitewashed houses and churches, meeting red dirt paddocks. It was so Anne of Green Gables! We stumbled across a tulip patch in full bloom the a church as a backdrop. Staying in Charlottetown tonight. We ...