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A Bicycle Trip to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
July 2003
Mount Thom, Nova Scotia, Canada © Ole Jacobi July 2003
This is much more quiet, and there's more to look at, as we pass through a number of small villages. The sight of the railway gives us the idea that we could get on a train to Halifax on our way home, but as we don't see a single train all day, perhaps the idea is not quite so obvious.
We reach our destination at 2 pm after cycling 70 km through a fairly flat landscape and find our B&B, a lovely house on the outskirts of Truro, where as an extra bonus we can inspect our host's collection of old parlour organs, 120 in all. In the evening we're taken down to the river, where there's a single tidal wave coming up the river from the Bay of Fundy at every flood time. The tide in the bay is quite heavy, and the shape of the bay makes the tide rise to full height within an hour, sending a single wave (solitron) up the river. We watch the phenomenon sitting on a dike built by the early French settlers, the "Acadians", who came here more than 200 years ago from France. They were later driven out by English settlers and ended up in New Orleans in the USA, where their culture still flourishes.
Thursday 10 July 2003
Studies of our host's topographic maps reveal the existence of the old main road no. 4 alongside the new motorway from Truro to New Glasgow. The road is quite broad with a good surface, and hardly any traffic. It leads through an empty wooded landscape rising to a height of 200 m, where we are only passed by 3 cars as we eat our lunch at the roadside.
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