Ottawa to PEI 2014

Happy Canada Day from PEI!

1 July 2014 Ottawa to PEI 2014

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Photo(s) of the day: Postcards from PEI

30 June 2014 Ottawa to PEI 2014

We made it! We nearly ran out of gas in rural Nova Scotia (that would have been an adventure I could do without) and I underestimated the first day of travel by about 90 minutes (which coincidentally was 90 minutes more patience in the car than the boys could achieve). We saw the the most […]

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Stalking Chef Michael Smith

24 June 2014 Ottawa to PEI 2014

I was at the gym on the elliptical machine quite a few months ago, some time in the autumn. One of the overhead TVs was broadcasting Chef Michael’s Kitchen on the Food Network, and Chef Michael Smith was talking about salads. I’d seen bits and pieces of his show before, also while sweating away on […]

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Planning for PEI: the hunt for the perfect seaside cottage

6 June 2014 Ottawa to PEI 2014

A couple of you have asked why we chose PEI and where we’ll be staying. We chose PEI the same way and with the same lack of intention we chose Nova Scotia a few years ago – a vague idea that it seemed like a nice place, a proximity to the ocean, a sense that […]

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Roadtripping: Crowdsourcing a route from Ottawa to PEI and back

9 May 2014 Ottawa to PEI 2014

I love that it’s finally May so I can say NEXT MONTH we are going to PEI. *insert happy dance here* It will be late next month, true, but it makes it seem so much more immediate now than it was six months ago when we booked the cottage rental for our first ever trip […]

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