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...

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.

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...

Above: Pumpkin Regatta in Windsor, NS; Right: Winners in the Double categoryOk, 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...

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...

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,...

Finally we arrived in Nova Scotia, a year of planning and organizing has been left behind us and our dream has just started and turned into real. The first signs of fall are already there and we are looking forward to see the leaves change in the next four weeks.

Planning a trip to Nova Scotia is exciting. We are always overwhelmed by the almost endless opportunities we encounter while sitting and preparing a vacation to Canada's Ocean Playground.

We love Nova Scotia and doing so it is bringing us back to Canada's Ocean Playground nearly every second year....