Atlantic canada

Thanks to our locals we got some tips of things we should visit in New Brunswick and our first stop is Magnetic Hill. It's a small animation park just of the highway that we're following. At first sight there's nothing much special to see, just a small hill and a sign with instructions which you need to follow. The attraction is to drive down the hill, put your car in neutral and then just watch and see. What happens then is directly against all laws of nature, the car actually drives up the hill again without doing anything. It sounds pretty stupid but when you see it, you just don't get it and we were like little children who tried it over and over. Normally you even have to pay for this during the high season and I can amagine there's a traffic jam as well on top of that. Luckely for us it's still very quiet everywhere, so entrance for free.

New Brunswick isn't a very big provence so we arrived later on that day to Halifax, the capital of Nuova Scotia. This Provence lies directly at the Atlantic ocean and although it doesn't look that big on the map it's still much bigger then Belgium.
We stayed here in a cosy Bed and Breakfast, because apparantly it was a Canadian holiday this weekend and so all the hostels were booked.
With the crowd also came the shitty weather. The whole city was in the fog. It lies at the ocean but you couldn't see any further then 20 metres, even when we were passing the bridge towards the city we couldn't see a thing. This is also the first rain we have in weeks, so we can't really complain, but now we're a bit limited with our activities.
We first visited a small fisher village, Peggy's cove, south of Halifax, which has a lighthouse that supposed to be the most picturised in the world. The village itself has only a population of 40, but in summer you can't even see them anymore.
We drove on to Lunenburg, which is also a fisher village and the whole town is unesco protected. They have some old houses, English style and they are famous for lobster. Actually the whole atlantic area is famous for that and you can already eat lobster for 15 dollars if you want.



Because of the bad weather we deceided to drive on to Prince Edward Island, the smallest province of Canada, and skip Cape Breton (North from Nuova scotia), we can't see everyhting anyway. We took the ferry to PEI and found a great hostel in Charlottetown. Some people told us that we could do the island in one day, but again the distances look so much smaller on the map then in reality. They have heeps of birds here and off course a lot of beaches. Blue Herrons, eagles, Seals, Lobster,... all that you can find here. Now that we came this far we deceided to play the real tourist and treated ourselves with a huge fish dinner, lobster included. Eating lobster isn't the easiest thing to do, but tasty mmm... and damn cheap overhere.
Satisfied and full, that's how i feel right now.


Now serious again :-)