Day Eleven

Rainy Tuesday

Not much of a day, really. Sorry to complain, but it kinda rained all day. We set off after cook’s-morning-off-pancakes prepared by a young lady seen reading a cookbook in the kitchen. Bad sign.
And then we drove up to Cape Breton. The End.

All right, there were a few adventures. Here’s a shot from the middle of the Canso Causeway that connects Cape Breton Island to the rest of Canada…

We stopped off at the world famous Red Barn for lunch, mostly because the literature said that it had “two Award Winning Gift Shops”. Two? We had to stop.
Our waitress was fabulous, as were the scallops.

Then we stopped off at the Alexander Graham Bell Centre near his home in Baddeck.                                                            You can barely see his house there in the rain.

Mostly because the Pilgrim had read “Reluctant Genius” in preparation for this trip, we had to stop.                                    But he was a truly remarkable man, and these exhibits prove it.

Back on the road, there was only one more place I wanted to stop, but I couldn’t talk the Missus into it….

We found our new home, a lovely spot called the Gowrie House in Sydney Mines.

We drove around Sydney Mines and North Sydney, but in the rain it all looked a little sad.                                                      So we repaired back to our overdecorated rooms,

Had a read, a snooze, and then another lovely dinner of local foods.                                                                                   Strawberry soup to start, roasted tomato and pesto salad, Lamb for me and salmon for her,                                                 and the dessert was free, so the calories don’t count.

Good night, all.