what I did on my summer vacation

[the_siobhan]

I finally got around to updating my travel page to include Maine and the Maritimes.

Blame the 750+ photos I had to sort through for the delay.

Errors, typos and snarks to the usual place.

Comments

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

wow, neat photos!

Gotta get myself up to eastern canada one of these decades.

[briarhill.livejournal.com]

You went to some of the same places we did on our honeymoon. What town in Maine were the cabins in? The Lord family are cousins of mine...

[the_axel]

Hatchet Mountain, Hope, near Camden.

[meshu.livejournal.com]

*awesome* pics!
One correction though.... it's "Theodore" Tugboat, not "Tommy" ;)
Also: BEAVER TAILS!!!! *drools*

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I couldn't convince Axel to try one - we were both too stuffed from lunch.

We did try dulce though. Nasty stuff.

[meshu.livejournal.com]

!!!
You don't like Dulce??? wtf is wrong with you?!?
heh. It *is* a fairly maritime thing.... I don't know anyone outside of the region who likes it... and quite a few *from* the region who can't stand it either come to think of it :P
I like it in small doses. Mind you, I also like salt cod and screech so.... ;)

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Is that dulce as in dulce de leche? That rich creamy stuff?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Dulce is dried seaweed. It has the texture of paper, and it's salty and fishy.

[meshu.livejournal.com]

and GOOOOOOD! :D

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

It had to much of that, "If you eat this sushi you will be very very sorry" after-taste for me to get past it. :-p

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Make that "too" much.

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

I loved the Maritimes both times I've been there. I was in Halifax about 5 years ago, and it is very much a university town, which is a large part of why I liked it. I also went to Peggy's Cove, Lunenberg, the Bay of Fundy and Cape Breton Island.

The 4 days I just spent in PEI were equally lovely, and the seafood was inncredible. So how did Axel like his first lobster?

[the_axel]

It was alright, but not sufficiently unlike fake crab sticks to warrant the price.

Fun to play with tho'.

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Fake crab sticks? Grief! A good lobster should never taste like fake crab. It should be rich and buttery and moist, and..and...*droooooool*

I had the best fucking lobster ever on PEI, preceded by the tenderest mussels.

*lapses into a food coma at the very thought*

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

It was very rich and buttery and moist.

It also tasted a lot like crab.

[melete.livejournal.com]

Somewhere along the way Krista called to tell us that highway 17 to the cottage was closed and gave us directions to detour. Which promptly got us lost.

Damn. Sorry 'bout that.

At least you made it in better time than most. ;)

[the_axel]

The getting lost part wasn't your fault, that was Matt & Alison's imprecise directions being misinterpreted by Cris & S'q. As soon as we figured out which right we were supposed to take we were gold.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I am informed by a reliable source that it wasn't your difections we were following when we got lost. I apologize for impuning your reputation.

I know nothing, I just turn when I'm told to.