Day 25 - Travel from Maitland to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia

Day 25 - Travel from Maitland to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia

Again we got up to a cloudy sky and a very light drizzle. I said goodbye to the family of cats (without taking one along unfortunately) and on we went to our next stop.

We had an appointment with a RV refrigeration shop to have our fridge checked out as it was not working and we were doing the icebox-ice routine. This is fine for a couple of days but not for the rest of our trip. Because we wanted to be there early in the day we took the major highways 104 and 105 to get more quickly to Sydney where this repair shop was located. The owner was very nice and had a look at our unit right away and concluded it was not our cooling system (luckily as this is very expensive to fix). After he checked the unit, adjusting some wires and cleaning the propane line we were done. He charged us $50 for an hour of labour for the work done and told us to come back if we encountered more problems. Quite the good Nova Scotia service! And so far so good with the repair

On we went to Louisbourg and there we had some ‘issues’ with our camp spot. We had made reservations about a month ago and had asked for electricity and water. Well the electricity was there but the water we had to fill with a ‘pot or something’ from a tap in between two buildings and thereby top up our trailer tank rather than having an actual water connection. Also we were allocated a spot beside another tent trailer and no way was there enough room for our trailer to be folded out, let alone to get it in the spot allocated. But all ended up well as the lady in the office had misunderstood how to allocate ‘these tent-trailer’ spots. After this was sorted out and we hummed and hawed about it all we decided to set up and stay as no spots are to be had in Louisbourg right now because of the 250th anniversary of the siege of the fortress taking place this year (The Encampment Celebration).

We did a quick tour of town as we needed some groceries now that we had a ‘real’ fridge again.

After supper we did some trip planning, reading and off to bed to get some well deserved rest as we will have a full day again tomorrow. Leo took off to try some pictures of the fishing boats at dusk and wound up B.S.ing with a crew of very friendly crab fishermen getting ready to run out to set their crab traps. His father would have been proud to hear him talk it up with these guys.

He did get some pictures and these can be seen here.