(The B&B is closed down) Friends from the very beginning this is how I would call Janet and Angus Quinn, hosts of the High Tide B&B at Lower Economy. The first time we visited the B&B there was a birthday party in the neighborhood ongoing and Janet took us with her for not being alone at the house. So we witnessed … Continue reading →
After a great evening in September at the Shennong Tea Lounge in Düsseldorf, Germany to the Motto Discover Nova Scotia I like to invite you to learn more about Nova Scotia, Canada especially the Cape Breton Highlands Nationalpark. Let me bring you to the gorgeous hiking trails and landscapes with beautiful photos Nicole and I have taken on our travels the last … Continue reading →
Today I publish an event note to all Canada and Nova Scotia fans on behalf of the Kanadatreff in Düsseldorf and myself. On September 13th I will show some photos my wife and I took in Nova Scotia and I will try to get you on a virtual trip to Nova Scotia this evening. You are more than welcome to … Continue reading →
Canada remembers the Titanic 100 years later – Events in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland by Kathy Eccles Take a virtual tour of the final resting place of the RMS Titanic and it is the everyday details – like the bathtub in the captain’s quarters or the cook’s pot in “Hell’s Kitchen”– that bring home the scope of this century-old tragedy. On April 14, 1912, the greatest … Continue reading →
A beautiful easy hike at the Kejimkujik National Park towards Peter Point and next to it the Snake Lake Trail, they can be combined to a nice extended walk. Combined they are approximately 6,5 km long. You hike mostly through boreal wood and along water. The path is well maintained and easy to walk. The tour will take you about … Continue reading →
While thinking over what another nice story would be to write about, and while I was listening to Celtic music, suddenly – I heard that Stan Rogers song “Barrett’s Privateers”. Oh, the year was 1778, how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now! A letter of marque came from the king, To the scummiest vessel I’d ever seen, God damn them … Continue reading →
We are nearly four weeks back in Germany and still looking back to all the things that happened to us and we are missing all the friendly and nice people, friends – old and new, we have to leave in Nova Scotia. Sadly we could not take them with us…. but Nova Scotia starts with the people. This is one … Continue reading →
SYDNEY — It’s been a trip of a lifetime for a German couple thanks to a Nova Scotia government-run contest.
Continue reading →Here is our last blog while we are still in Nova Scotia. Four weeks, we thought, would have given us the chance to see all the things that Nova Scotia has to offer. Right now it feels like we arrived yesterday although we are already nearly four weeks here and only the two days that we have planned for travelling … Continue reading →
Halfway through a tour of Nova Scotia, Joerg and Nicole Knoerchen stopped to experience Bear River and Balancing Rock.
Continue reading →Ok, we all know what a pumpkin is, these are the those fall time fruits that make halloween so spooky if you carve them and put a candle inside or those who make soups so yummy. But “for us” it was unusual to see how huge they can be and that they can comfortably hold two persons upon the water!
Continue reading →Time seems to rush by and we had to leave Keji after some more hikes and landed up at Cape Split where we met some ‘old’ hiking friends to hike to the tip of the cape. Unfortunately I lost my “be prepared” camera at this trail a Canon IXSUS 70, so go for a hike and if you find my … Continue reading →
The bad weather confined us within the next few days, while we passed the old Woolen Mill in Barrington, it was still dry but suddenly heavy rain poured down and made our bird watching tour at Cape Sable Island impossible, heavy fog covered the lighthouse at Cape Forchu but just a few hours later Gilbert’s Cove Lighthouse showed up in … Continue reading →
