The Grand Canadian/
American Adventure
Day Ten Halifax to
Fredericton
I’d like to start this blog off with an apology, to both our
sets of parents. Sorry for those long road trips you had to endure with kids.
To all you other parents who have done the same, we know your pain. Our time
has now come, there have been places along the way we could have quite happily
dropped off the kids Lol. Having said that the kids have been very resilient
considering the amount of time they are forced to spend in the car, we have
found that having a pool at the hotel is a godsend.
Now back to the trip today was another road trip. First off
we headed South of Halifax to a place called Peggy’s Cove a fishing village on
the coast, its lighthouse is the most photographed in all of Canada. The
village gives a real feel of how hard and cold it must be living along the
Atlantic seaboard, granite rocks, high seas and winds. Because of its closeness
to Halifax and how picturesque it is Peggy’s Cove is now a major tourist
destination. On a more sombre note it was only a few miles off shore that a
Swissair Flight came down in the sea on a flight from Europe with the loss of
229 people, a memorial is situated a little way down the coast.
Leaving Peggy’s cove we head back across Nova Scotia to New
Brunswick. For those friends I grew up with, I would have liked to have sent
you a photo from Bridgewater, but it was a bit too far South and the same for
those in Sydney (that’s Sydney with a “Y” they do know how to spell) it was too
far North. The drive today was some 400Km’s and during this time we passed over
the Tropic of Cancer, the halfway mark between the Equator and the North Pole.
Not much to see in
Fredericton just an overnight stay, at least it’s got a pool. Tomorrow Quebec
City, the heart of French speaking Canada and no I didn’t keep up my French
lessons so I can’t understand word.
