Travel dates: June 29-July 4, 2018 Like with Dunromin in Annapolis Royal, I was very nervous that Woodhaven RV Park, about 20 minutes outside of Halifax, was going to be terrible. Or barely passable at best. But, like with Dunromin, it turned out to be a really nice place and a great central location for checking […]
Halifax has a Lot of Museums: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
Travel dates: June 29-July 4, 2018 In retrospect, it’s possible that we stuffed too many museums into our couple of days in Halifax….but I’m sort of of the belief that there’s no such thing as too many museums. But there might be such thing as not enough Public Gardens, though…which is probably the thing I was […]
A Day in Kejimkujik National Park: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
Travel date: June 28, 2018 People mostly think of the coasts when they think of visiting Nova Scotia: the Bay of Fundy to the north, the port city of Halifax to the south, the winding, scenic drive along the shore on Cape Breton. And truth be told, we spend most of our three Nova Scotia […]
Rolling Down Hills and Drinking Beer in Annapolis Royal: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
Travel dates June 26-29, 2018 Remember a few posts ago when I was telling you guys how completely charmed we were by Parrsboro, Nova Scotia? Yes, well, it’s possible I’m going to be saying the same kind of thing about a number of towns in Nova Scotia before I’m finished. We adored Annapolis Royal: I […]
Dunromin Campground in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia: Campground Review
Travel dates: June 26-29, 2018 Truth be told, I was a little nervous about campgrounds in Nova Scotia before our trip. For many of our stops, I was able to find a campground with okay reviews, but I couldn’t find many with GREAT reviews. Or I’d find one that sounded good but only had one […]
Ross Farm: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
We almost didn’t go to Ross Farm. It was raining and chilly, and we’d already visited Grand-pré that morning, so seriously considered calling it a day and just hanging out in the trailer. But I’d had my eye on Ross Farm since early in our Nova Scotia planning process–after all, Ingalls Homestead, another living history […]
A Rainy Visit to Grand-prè National Historic Site: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
Travel dates: June 25, 2018 I love a good historic site (or even a mediocre historic site), but after you’ve done about a million of them in the US they can start to be a little repetitive. “Oh, look–a Civil War battle happened here, too.” I’m okay with repetition, but novelty is nice, too…and that’s what […]
Highbury Gardens RV Park in Canaan, Nova Scotia: Campground Review
There’s a ton to see in Nova Scotia, and planning a trip can be overwhelming–even if you have three weeks to fit everything in like we did. So I based a lot of our stops on the same thing I would when planning a trip in the US: proximity to national park sites. So I […]
Visiting Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia: An Unesco World Heritage Site
Travel date: June 23, 2018 The first time our tour guides called us all over to look at a 300 million year old fossil, everyone was awestruck. “Did he just find that right now…on the beach?” someone asked in wonder. But by the end of our beach walk these discoveries had become routine. We went […]
A Day in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia with Kids
I can’t remember exactly how the little town of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, right on the Bay of Fundy, made it onto our Atlantic Canada itinerary, but I’m glad it did. We loved the town, and it served as a perfect introduction to Nova Scotia for us. We spent three nights here, so we had two […]