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Visiting Clare/St. Mary’s Bay, Nova Scotia
Lighthouses parked on rugged cliffs, colorful fishing boats navigating harbors, bossy seagulls scouting for their next meals, crabs scurrying to hide under barnacle covered rocks, weathered barns next to gingerbread trimmed homes, stunning walking trails, perfect picnic spots and countless restaurants and diners filled with home cooked meals, loads of Acadian smiles and welcomes…THIS is Clare/St. Mary’s Bay, Nova Scotia. We recently spent a long weekend exploring the stunning area surrounding St. Mary’s Bay with our daughters and would love to share our travels with you. With breathtaking views at…
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Our visit to the Anne of Green Gables Museum ( & Matthew’s Carriage Rides)
We arrived at the 110-acre grounds holding the Anne of Green Gables Museum on a foggy summer morning. The museum itself is actually the original home built by John and Annie Campbell, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s aunt and uncle, and a home she described as “the wonder castle of my childhood”. Built in 1872 and maintained to this day, it stands on a small hill eagerly inviting all to enter and explore its contents. It was in this home that L.M. Montgomery felt most inspired and wrote several of her world…
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A Visit to King’s Landing Historical Village
We spent a beautiful day exploring King’s Landing this summer and we want to share it with you! What we love about visiting this historical village is that it gives you the chance to jump into the past, the 19th century to be exact. As we strolled along, we were able to meet the “villagers” in their homes or places of work, talk about what was happening in their day and even pitch in and help with tasks and chores. We met mothers and teachers, farmers and a millwright, a…
