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Well worth the trip: Kingsbrae Gardens in New Brunswick In 2011 the Garden Tourism Conference selected Kingsbrae Gardens in St. Andrews-by-the-Sea among the top five gardens in North America worth visiting. And just a year earlier, Steve Jermanok, travel blogger for the renowned US newspaper Boston Globe, even counted the park among the best of the [...]
The Peggy's Cove lighthouse in Nova Scotia Canada is one of the highlights that the Canadian province on the Atlantic has to offer. Everyone who comes here must have seen the most beautiful lighthouse on Canada's Atlantic coast.
The Cabot Trail is considered to be one of the most beautiful routes in Nova Scotia. We explored it for two days on our road trip and were on the trail of the Scots who had settled Cape Breton from the 18th century.
We explore the Ceilidh Trail in Nova Scotia and discover real insider tips. However, you have to take your time. It is worth going down to one of the harbors, one of the bays or one of the sandy beaches. Unlike the Cabot Trail, the beauties are not directly on the main road.
An aquarium stands on the waterfront in the fishing village of Ucluelet Canada. Ucluelet British Columbia Canada is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Every spring, the aquarium receives fish and other marine animals for its display cases and water tanks. In winter they are released back into the sea.
Newfoundland wine is nothing new, as the island may be the Vinland of the Vikings. One thing is certain, however. The Newfoundland winery certainly never had the rows of vines that we know from other parts of Canada. Instead, it's famous for the Newfoundland Blueberry Wine.
Rarely has anything surprised and impressed me as much as the Shaw Ocean Discovery Center in Sidney BC on Vancouver Island. The diversity of the underwater creatures, but above all their color palette, takes your breath away. All the yellow, blue, pink, white, violet and other colors that were swimming, crawling and gliding around.
In Fitch Bay, Quebec, the scent of lavender fills the air. At Bleu Lavande, lavender is grown to extract the lavender oils. Admittedly, in Canada's harsh climate, treating lavender to survive the harsh winters wasn't easy. But see for yourself.
The first Vancouver Island Wine was grown by farmers in the fertile Cowichan Valley in the 1920s. The climate is favorable for viticulture. Almost 80 vineyards have grown from these beginnings. Wines from more than 40 wineries grow here.
Roma at Three Rivers isn't very big and never has been. It is a place on the east coast of Prince Edward Island on a peninsula in the Montague River. The first settlers in Prince Edward Island settled there in the 18th century under the direction of the French trader Jean Pierre Roma.
