With the North part of PEI done, it was time to let the very eager Charlotte head towards her near relative – Charlottetown. The drive from Summerside to Charlottetown is only around 65 km, but on the way are 2 PEI institutions: the PEI preserve company ; and New Glasgow lobster suppers To be fair, I stumbled across […]
Canada
Canada Day celebrations
Fredericton is the provincial capital of New Brunswick. Located on the banks of the St John River, with a historic district full of wonderful old buildings surrounding a central park, it was where Charlotte and I found ourselves on the eve of Canada Day. As we drove in, preparations were in full swing in the […]
Practice France
So, Montreal ended with some unnecessary drama. Whilst overcome, it clearly indicated that my time there was up. Having survived my time in “Preliminary France”, it was time to graduate to “Practice France” aka Quebec City (and the wider province, Quebec). Not for nothing is it the only province in Canada where the only official language is […]
It’s a mystery.
The delights of its beer scene, call centre shennanigans, and eye-opening public transport system are not sufficient to keep me in Toronto much longer. (Who would have thunk?) I’m still without a crystallised plan for Canada, somehow it seems compressed in a way America does not, and I do not want to just flit from major […]