What a delight is Quebec City - seems more French than France! Our 16 hours on different buses took us through Nova Scotia and New Bunswick and the closer we got to the border with Quebec the more the signs became French only. Previously in Canada all road signs were in both languages. We changed buses just before the border and the bus driver was French speaking with only halting English. The Province of Quebec stands alone in its complete "Frenchness". Queb...

Often with travel we need to briefly come back to a place we have already been. In this case we needed to return our hire car back to Halifax before heading off to our next destination of Quebec City. There was no time for further sightseeing as we needed to check out buses and trains our next destination Quebec. Finding the bus to be cheaper we booked for the morning then headed off to a hostel close to the bus station to get some sleep before a long arduous tr...

We arrived in Prince Edward Island (known to locals just as PEI) by way of a new high bridge from New Brunswick which is 13 klms long! It was also very high and as we drove across a cruise boat went underneath us. Prince Edward Island is where the author Lucy Maude Montgomery lived and used as the setting for the Anne of Green Gables books. Heather had loved the books as a child and having seen the mini series on TV decided it would be a good place to visit. For...

18 hours on a series of buses took us from Boston all the way through the state of Maine and up into Canada via New Brunswick and finally to our destination of Halifax in Nova Scotia, all on the one day. The buses are comfortable, the scenery beautiful but it still is a long time! We enjoyed a couple of days getting to know Halifax and staying in a quaint Bed and Breakfast. We did a tour of the Citadel which is where the Scots guarded the city and harbour and you...

We caught a bus to Boston from Saratoga Springs with the journey taking about 5 hours. The states are all fairly close together in this part of the USA. On arrival at the Boston bus station we walked for about a kilometre to the Berkley YWCA hostel. Previously for women only, it now takes couples as well in private rooms with shared shower and toilet facilities. Boston is one of the most expensive cities in the US for accommodation so we were pleased to have an ...