A detour with unexpected delights

Back to solo travel again, the first leg required me to doggedly retrace my steps along Newfoundland’s main Highway all the way to Cow’s Head, the northernmost point we had reached as a group. 750 kms of previously traversed and viewed landscape. Or so I thought. Until I got a second notification from Canada Post […]

Ribs, the police and a big fiddle

The next day, over breakfast, I remembered that the locals had all been talking up the local Sydney Ribfest. Alex and Heidi were due to arrive in Sydney that evening, with us leaving the next day on the ferry, so it seemed a good way to spend a few hours in the afternoon. I’m not […]

Fortresses and Trivia

Awaking refreshed after a good night’s sleep, Charlotte and I went about exploring Sydney in the morning. It’s a pretty place, sitting on the east side of the Sydney River, which in turn flows into it’s very own Sydney harbour, and historically was one of North America’s main steel mills. It has a number of […]

Home to Sydney. Well maybe not that one

In the morning Alex popped past Charlotte to wake me up (they are early risers it seems) and we discussed travel plans. Both of us were heading towards Newfoundland, but our intended trips around Nova Scotia were a little different. I had to race to Glace Bay, way off to the east to pick up […]