The Dundee Arms Inn 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.

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 ...

Heute beschlossen wir, den Prince Edward Island Nationalpark zu erkunden. Beeindruckend waren die Dünenlandschaften, die roten Felsen und die einsamen weissen Strände.

Wir machten gerade einen kleinen Spaziergang, als wir die Schreie von Gänsen hörten. Es wurde immer lauter. Als wir an den Himmel blickten, sahen wir ein besonderes Spektakel. Die ...

... merkt man sofort, dass alles auf das touristische Ziel 'Anne of the Green Gables' ausgerichtet ist. Vielleicht haben ein paar von euch diese Geschichte in den Jugendjahren auch gelesen. Es steht hier ein Haus mit grünen Giebeln, das wie in der Romanhandlung eingerichtet wurde. Wir haben darauf verzichtet, es zu besuchen. Der Eintritt ist überrissen, und bieten tut es wenig. Auf jeden Fall sind die Japaner hier zahlreich vertreten. Schliesslich ist es deren 4. Lieblingsreiseziel.

... 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.

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 ...

... because Cavendish is the very heart of the Anne story, and some clue of what she was about was necessary to comprehend the area. Anne and L.M. Montgomery were everywhere.

In the morning we drove the short distance to the Prince Edward Island National Park in which is housed the “actual” Green Gables house. For a modest fee one can view a short film about LMM and Anne then tour a period barn and the house and buy things. The site also features ...

... though, I thought it could have done with some kind of seasoning maybe. I ended up not even breaking into to the skinny leg pieces because I couldn’t be bothered. We had brought sandwich stuff with us so I had a piece of bread with peanut butter too. Then was the whale watching… Not everyone went on the whale watching but I thought it sounded good, and I like nature, so I paid the 25 bucks. I felt queasy as soon as we were heading off and then when we slowed down ...

... ve discovered that boredom breeds contempt. Lovely. You'd think all the distractions, not to mention the picturesque countryside would keep them happily busy for hours--not so. I was actully hoping to find a lost killer whale to threaten them with...they didn't believe I'd pitch them off Confederation Bridge...but only because I was too scared to prolong that 12 km agony any further...but I'm a wee ...

... and managed to remove my only two misgivings about the public transport on the island by asking if I'd like to book myself on the DIRECT shuttle to Cavendish the next morning, and then mentioning the shuttle to Halifax that would drop me at my new house, thereby saving me about $150 in taxi fares in one sentence. As I was being organised, a chirpy Steven Hyde from That 70s Show bounced down the stairs, expressing dismay at the huge pile of bed linen waiting for him. This turned ...

We left Halifax in the rain and stopped at Deanna's Aunt Trudy's in Cap Pelee for lunch. A beautiful spot but the clouds got more ominous as the afternoon passed. We managed to get to Charlottetown before the downpour but it soon became monsoon like. We later learned it was the tail of a tropical storm.