Adventure day two
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cornerofmadnessSlept well in the North Winds Inn at Brackley Beach and had a great breakfast of Red River porridge . We went to the Cavendish bluffs and looked at the water (and learned PEI loses 100 acres a year to erosion). They were lovely. Then we went to the Anne of Green Gables house . I have to say I have no spiritual connection to this character (and I swear that several on this tour were here just for this). I don’t even remember liking the book. This house is the inspiration, which belonged to one of Montgomery’s relatives. It’s just a typical farm house of that time period which isn’t that exciting (I will say the wall paper was a thing of horror). I did take a picture wearing Anne’s hat and red braids. I did walk down lovers’ lane and the haunted woods trails, two of the walks from the book (which had been cattle paths back in the day). I sadly couldn’t resist buying an Anne of Green Gables book because I could have the author’s signature stamped into it. I mean I had no intention of buying it until I learned that. SO weak willed.
We also went around the island with a native guide and stopped at the harbor to learn how to fish for lobster (and that the lobster license is like property, once you get it you can will it, story fodder right there. They can be worth millions) and I went into the very smelly fresh fish mart. Had I been somewhere I could cook, a big bunch of scallops would have come home with me.
Then we went to a French culture historical site that had three things to see: the Saint Augustine church, oldest in PEI, the farming bank that’s now a museum and the predecessor of the credit unit and a 1700s farm house, owned by the Douchet family and our second guide was related to that family. The French community on PEI is very small. Saint Augustine was an interesting Catholic church, more ornate than I was expecting. I had to explain holy water to a Baptist. I eventually just told him it was magic water. The bank was interesting. It was a small museum now that let you print your own money as a souvenir because back when it was a bank they printed their own script like in the mining towns, but it was good island wide. The Douchet house was interesting but typical of homes of that time period. The amazing thing was that the original owners lived there with all 11 of their kids.
After lunch, they dumped us downtown Charlottetown (the capitol of PEI) to shop. We were right across from the Saint Dunstan Basilica which was beautiful especially the angels holding clamshells of holy water. It was simply a beautiful cathedral with a truly elaborate altar. In town, as we did the initial ride around, I saw two book stores and a comic book store side by side that I wanted to find but had trouble. I ended up at the wharf and went to Cows ice cream for a Gooey Mooey (Burnt sugar, caramel ribbons and caramel cups) and passed on the geeky t shirts. I did stop at a store that had t-shirts dyed by the iron rich red sandstone dirt (the selling point is that they wash the shirts with the dirt and they come out a nice rust color) and wanted those but they ran SO small the lady in the story who was a size four barely fit into a medium. I had to pass them up.
I hiked up the hill and found the book stores, but I couldn’t find what I really wanted, local ghost story books until finally they found one and I bought that. Then went back down the hill to the shore again (I wish the ‘take a ride on a Junk’ tour would have worked out because it looked like fun, but it wasn’t leaving until late). I got lobster poutine for dinner and then went back to Cow’s Ice Cream and bought the damn t-shirt (a cow dressed as Deadpool with the words DeadMool Mooximum Effort. Went to Gahan House a brew pub where I had gone in the beginning of the tour of the town ( blueberry ale then stout)
Came back to the hotel and went swimming which really managed my sugary indulgences.
Cavendish Bluffs
The Bluffs
Green Gables
The kitchen. I liked the cylinder on it which was a smoker
Welcome to Vertigo
The haunted woods
I'm Anne
Saint Augustine
Inside Saint Aug
Farming Bank
Douchet homestead with the ocean view
Saint Dunstan's in Charlottestown
The holy water font
Inside Dunstan's
The Junk
Street view
Poutine
And Oh, FINALLY saw Avengers Infinity War
We also went around the island with a native guide and stopped at the harbor to learn how to fish for lobster (and that the lobster license is like property, once you get it you can will it, story fodder right there. They can be worth millions) and I went into the very smelly fresh fish mart. Had I been somewhere I could cook, a big bunch of scallops would have come home with me.
Then we went to a French culture historical site that had three things to see: the Saint Augustine church, oldest in PEI, the farming bank that’s now a museum and the predecessor of the credit unit and a 1700s farm house, owned by the Douchet family and our second guide was related to that family. The French community on PEI is very small. Saint Augustine was an interesting Catholic church, more ornate than I was expecting. I had to explain holy water to a Baptist. I eventually just told him it was magic water. The bank was interesting. It was a small museum now that let you print your own money as a souvenir because back when it was a bank they printed their own script like in the mining towns, but it was good island wide. The Douchet house was interesting but typical of homes of that time period. The amazing thing was that the original owners lived there with all 11 of their kids.
After lunch, they dumped us downtown Charlottetown (the capitol of PEI) to shop. We were right across from the Saint Dunstan Basilica which was beautiful especially the angels holding clamshells of holy water. It was simply a beautiful cathedral with a truly elaborate altar. In town, as we did the initial ride around, I saw two book stores and a comic book store side by side that I wanted to find but had trouble. I ended up at the wharf and went to Cows ice cream for a Gooey Mooey (Burnt sugar, caramel ribbons and caramel cups) and passed on the geeky t shirts. I did stop at a store that had t-shirts dyed by the iron rich red sandstone dirt (the selling point is that they wash the shirts with the dirt and they come out a nice rust color) and wanted those but they ran SO small the lady in the story who was a size four barely fit into a medium. I had to pass them up.
I hiked up the hill and found the book stores, but I couldn’t find what I really wanted, local ghost story books until finally they found one and I bought that. Then went back down the hill to the shore again (I wish the ‘take a ride on a Junk’ tour would have worked out because it looked like fun, but it wasn’t leaving until late). I got lobster poutine for dinner and then went back to Cow’s Ice Cream and bought the damn t-shirt (a cow dressed as Deadpool with the words DeadMool Mooximum Effort. Went to Gahan House a brew pub where I had gone in the beginning of the tour of the town ( blueberry ale then stout)
Came back to the hotel and went swimming which really managed my sugary indulgences.
Cavendish Bluffs The Bluffs Green Gables The kitchen. I liked the cylinder on it which was a smoker Welcome to Vertigo The haunted woods I'm Anne Saint Augustine Inside Saint Aug Farming Bank Douchet homestead with the ocean view Saint Dunstan's in Charlottestown The holy water font Inside Dunstan's The Junk Street view PoutineAnd Oh, FINALLY saw Avengers Infinity War
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Date: 2018-06-27 06:05 pm (UTC)Don't you just want to wallpaper everything in that and then slowly use it to make an enemy insane? Just me?
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Date: 2018-06-27 06:29 pm (UTC)Honestly I DID pause at the top of the landing because it made me dizzy
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Date: 2018-07-05 10:52 pm (UTC)You have seen quite a bit of that corner of the world, it seems! And you're giving me final proof that Poutine is indeed something people can eat, and not just some myth going around... on the other hand, after having been there, you might have been sworn in to carry on with that myth. ;o)
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Date: 2018-07-06 03:37 am (UTC)I did get to see a lot of the land. Poutine is real, all too real, all too unhealthy but utterly deliciously real.