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Bonjour East Coast - Part 3 - PEI

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We took the easy way to PEI using 1997 built Confederation bridge.  It is the longest bridge (12.9 km) in the world over ice-covered water.


One of the interesting views from the bridge is the red coloured water at the banks of PEI which is caused by the red soil on the island.

One of the first thing that we saw on the other side was a lawn that was cut in stripes.  It looked pretty, and the other lawn beside it was also cut in stripes, and the one next to it was cut neatly with lots of flowers in front of the house.



After a few meters we realized that this just how PEI is.
With only 150 thousands of people on the whole island it feels like a small community of farmers.
Another difference worth mentioning is that almost every house had blooming rhododendrons and many places by the road had growing lupines.

On the first day we checked in to a Victorian Inn and had a dinner at a local brewery in Charlottetown. We also checked out the famous COWS Creamery.

On the next day we went to explore the PEI north beaches.


Huge beaches.



And there is nothing else there... just ocean.




We made a stop at the Anne of Green Gables site.  I knew that Anne is a fictional character, and that Lucy Maud Montgomery was not living in the house she describes, but I did not know that the house is just a stone throw away from the place that Lucy did grew up.  We visited the green gables house and the ruins of the house Lucy lived in.  We even sent out some postcards from the post office Lucy worked at (a replica of one, but that is OK) and learned the history of her life and the numerous publisher rejections before the first book was published.  I guess I am now obligated to read the books. :-P


I also learned that Anne was not of the green hill as the polish translation said, but Anne of the green gables house (green siding).

gables
noun
the part of a wall that encloses the end of a pitched roof.
We ended the evening with a nice meal at Pilot House and on the next day we took back the bridge to get to Nova Scotia.  The reason we did not take the ferry was that we had to stop at the Tatamagouche brewery ( do not mix with tamagachi :-) )
and we had dinner in a dinning car.


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