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Away we go

Measuring summer by the cup

10 August 2010 Away we go

I know summer isn’t really over yet, but I’m back at work now and my holidays are over. Even though it’s a little less than a month until the boys go back to school, Beloved’s holidays are also more or less over after next week. So, even though there is plenty left of the summer [...]

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“Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death” ~Hunter Thompson

2 August 2010 5 things

Here’s something you likely noticed about me: I’m always up for a new adventure. There are some thrills, though, that I have purposefully avoided in my life, and riding a motorcycle has always been one of them. In fact, up until last week, I’d never been on a real motorcycle before. I grew up in [...]

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Road trip!!!

29 July 2010 Away we go

What do you do when you and your husband and three kids successfully survive a 3500 km road trip through four provinces? Give ‘em two and a half weeks to recover, then throw them back in the car again and head in the opposite direction! We just finished a week-long road trip loop through southern [...]

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Our Nova Scotia treasure

22 July 2010 Ottawa to Nova Scotia 2010

We’ve finally arrived at the last post in the Nova Scotia road trip series, a mere two weeks after the road trip itself concluded. (!) A few days before we left for Nova Scotia, I mentioned Oak Island to Beloved. I remember learning about the Oak Island Money Pit in school when I was a [...]

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The playdate that redeemed New Brunswick

19 July 2010 Ottawa to Nova Scotia 2010

I still have a couple of last posts to write about our Nova Scotia road trip a few weeks ago. It must be a good vacation when I can’t quite leave it behind, eh? As I mentioned in an earlier post, my first impressions of New Brunswick in general and Fredericton in particular were not [...]

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A postcard from Lunenburg

11 July 2010 Ottawa to Nova Scotia 2010

I‘ve told you about the drive to and from Nova Scotia, and the ferry ride, and our visit to Halifax. I still haven’t had a chance yet to tell you much about our breathtaking little cottage on the ocean, or the amazing little town of Lunenburg just across the harbour. We chose Lunenburg by sheer [...]

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A postcard from Halifax

9 July 2010 Ottawa to Nova Scotia 2010

We didn’t intend to go to Halifax our first full day in Nova Scotia. We figured maybe Canada Day might be a good choice, or one of the other days a little later in the week. It turned out, though, that we needed to make the hour-and-a-quarter trek back up to Halifax right away so [...]

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Thoughts on traveling 4 provinces and 3,420 km in 9 days with 3 kids

7 July 2010 Ottawa to Nova Scotia 2010

Even though we’re home now, I still have a whole bunch of things I want to tell you about our trip to Nova Scotia. Finola hit on one subject I wanted to address with her questions in the comment box yesterday: “Do you recommend all the driving with young kids? Did they enjoy?” Would I [...]

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It’s not every day you get to drive a ferry across the Bay of Fundy

5 July 2010 Ottawa to Nova Scotia 2010

Taking the ferry across from Digby, Nova Scotia to Saint John, New Brunswick seemed like a good idea in theory. It’s more or less the same amount of the day eaten up, but instead of driving up and around the land portion where Nova Scotia meets New Brunswick, you take what is as the crow [...]

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True colours

2 July 2010 Ottawa to Nova Scotia 2010

After spending most of the last week driving in and out of and through Lunenburg, I’m pretty sure that either the whole town is colour blind, or the housepainters are on some trippy drugs. I mean, really! And the view from the harbour is even more riotous with colour: Even their old abandoned boats are [...]

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