Right, missed a week... Sorry I’m bad! It’s been hectic at work this last week. I heard once that agency life quietened down over the summer months but I’ve never experienced it yet. On a lighter note, the weather has improved again! We’re back up to the mid twenties and it’s sunny, sunny, sunny!
We had Monday off work this week for Victoria Day – good ol’ Queen Vic letting us have the day off work. So as the ‘Purple Bomb’ (AKA PT Cruiser – our very unreliable car) hadn’t caused us any problems over the past week or so (apart from the badge falling off!) we decided to pack her up and go on a road trip.
So, Saturday was mainly spent driving. We decided to do a circle of the Eastern side of Nova Scotia ending up around the South Shore area. We set off nice and early fueled with coffee, muffins and Campino’s and headed off to Yarmouth. Our intentions were to spend the night in Yarmouth and then move on to the South Shore on the Sunday night.
Anyway, we arrived in Yarmouth which is a ferry port for the journey to Maine (the ferry still wasn’t running when we visited) and as it is a place where people arrive and leave Nova Scotia from America, we thought it would be quite a bustling town... Should have learnt from our trip to Amsterdam from Hull (yep... They put ferry ports in towns where there is absolutely nothing to do!)
We wandered around the town for a little while, and then decided to cut our journey down by a day and go straight to the South Shore. The weather wasn’t supposed to be great on Sunday so going back a day early wouldn’t be such a disaster. We arrived at Lunenburg around teatime and immediately thought, yeah we can stop here. Lunenburg is a pretty little coastal town with multi coloured wood houses, it’s like something from a postcard... And Rich spotted a pub on the drive into the town. Something he has been looking for since we moved here.
So we checked into the hotel, a hotel my work did all the design work for, so I had heard that it was quite nice. We quickly got changed and headed out for the night. It was actually quite a lot of fun being in a proper pub, it’s amazing how you miss the atmosphere. As the drinks flowed we got involved in a darts match with a two brothers, two step-sisters, a man in a not only a bandana but a bobble hat over the top and a bobsleigher who competed for Canada. It was a very entertaining night, which involved lots of drinking and shots, a stumble home and a very slow drive home the next day.
But we had a great time and it was nice to see a different town. I bet it is beautiful in the summer. And so, it’s nearly the end of another week!
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