We are falling behind in our blog, but then we did not do anything too exciting or different during the remaining days of our stay in Louisbourg. Basically it was more of the same. Saturday, day 28, we both went to the Fortress and in the evening we took in the evening performance of the battle of Louisbourg in de natural fog and the artificial fog created by the smoke of the muskets. There was also a firework display but this also went up into the fog.
On Sunday, day 29, Leo went back to the fortress for more pictures and I stayed around the campsite and entertained myself by watching the children perform a Karaoke.
In the evening there was to be a boat parade in the town harbour and fireworks again. Well they sure know how to do a parade here. 1 ‘lighted’ fishing boat went by and a few other boats but nothing was organized. It was like the boat parade we used to have at Sylvan Lake. And the fireworks! Well after waiting for an hour or so we finally heard that they were cancelled. Again this was not a very well organized event by Parks Canada just like the first parade.
Monday, day 30, we packed up to move on again. We stopped at the trailer repair place to have our trailer wheels greased and the oil changed in the car. After that we drove to Baddeck, NS. It just started to rain here so we waited with setting up our trailer and Leo worked on his pictures to be posted. The rain let up a bit just enough for us to set up the trailer and have some supper.
Today, day 31, we visited Baddeck village and went to the Graham Bell museum. We learned a few more things about Mr. Bell, like that he was married to a deaf woman and lived here in Baddeck.
Tomorrow we will be taking the ferry to Newfoundland, leaving at 4 pm in the afternoon arriving about 10:00 that evening. This is the earliest ferry we could book, as all the other days were booked already. We have our campsite booked so we will have no problems finding a spot that night or have to sleep in the van. So far we have not had the use the bed in the van yet.
We also did some planning for our trip on Newfoundland and noticed that there are not a lot of campsites available and also that not all of them will have Internet. You may not find us online as often as we have been because of this. We did this planning in a day room at the campsite where we had to sit to get internet access. We spoke in Dutch all the time to each other, and one of the owners was present and able to listen in to our discussion. We talked of wanting to visit one specific place in Newfoundland which had a funny name and the campground owner would have only understood one word in English of our discussion. That word was `Dildo`. No wonder he looked at us strangely when we walked out!
Pictures of the last few days can be found here.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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