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How much difference a year makes…
Amazing how the notion of time passing has two sides: sometimes we can not understand how we are already in the middle of November, just over a month of the holidays and at the same time, wow, how much to remember in these 11 and a half months of 2016. I have nostalgic days, or well saying, I'm always with that feeling that these two young ladies here at home have been growing up, talking, inventing jokes and interacting super well, but too fast. I'm sure whoever's a parent will agree with me. It is sweet and bitter, this conviction that our children grow, thus, in the blink of an…
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Lunenburg | Nova Scotia
One of the most photographed spots in Lunemburg. While we were visiting Halifax (see post here) in Nova Scotia, we took half a day to visit the village of Lunenburg, about 1h15min by car. Although the small town (just over 2,000 inhabitants) is super small, we thought it was worth visiting it, telling all the charm, the colorful and the visuals. There are not many things to do there, so sights and such, so the ideal is to enjoy the streets, the visuals and the local cuisine. It appears as a fishing village and is recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada and Unesco World Heritage Site, so…
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Halloween 2016
Jack-o-Lantern 2016 This year, October came arriving quietly, soft, but with the usual beautiful color. Only suddenly, the cold came to stay, gave even snow (which has already melted) and finally came one of the most anticipated days of the year for children, Halloween (see 2015 here). Over the years, we've been getting more and more excited about this commemorative date here, but more in the sense of being an opportunity to wear costumes and be, for a few hours, something different from who we are in everyday life and the best, to see the children so excited and willing tas to go out on the street knocking door to…
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Halifax – Nova Scotia | Atlantic Provinces
Citadel Hill, New Our last stop in the Atlantic provinces of Canada, or rather The Maritimes, was Halifax and before leaving home I knew it would be the biggest city and with more things to see, but we were surprised by the inviting and pleasant atmosphere of the capital of province of Nova Scotia. Although Halifax is small, with less than 300,000 inhabitants in the city (297,000), we find it full of attractions and super friendly in many ways. We arrived later in the afternoon in the city, coming from Charlottetown (see post here) and this time we chose to pick up a hotel that stayed a walking distance from…
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Snow in October | Autumn in Ottawa
Yesterday, kind of unexpectedly, because as far as I know, the weather forecast only said flurries, but it ended up snowing a lot considering that we are still in October. The result was about 5cm of snow and a winter setting in the middle of Canadian autumn. Rarely snows in October in Ottawa and we hope it is not a sign of a longer or snowy winter (in fact, there are rumors that it will be…). The temperature already promises to rise tomorrow and all accumulated snow must have melted by Sunday, but we have already given a preview of what awaits us in the next 5 months … monochrome…
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Charlottetown , New Ville PEI Province
We had heard and read several super cool things about the province of Prince Edward Island and I confess that perhaps it would have been interesting to have explored more of the four corners of the island, but we actually had 2 and a half days and tried to do the best we could, considering our possibilities. Leaving Moncton, we drove for just over 30 min to get to know the Shediac area, as I wrote in Moncton‘s post. The tour was cool was on the way and soon we headed to the iconic bridge between New Brunswick and PEI, the Confederation Brigde, inaugurated in 1997, is 12.8km long and…
