With Fiona barreling towards us we made a beeline, as much as possible, across Nova Scotia, then New Brunswick and arrived tonight in Houlton, Maine. For those who are interested, Houlton has the world’s largest scale model Solar System. Pluto is in Houlton and the Sun is 40 miles away in a building at U. of Maine in Presque Isle and the other planets scattered in between. Did we see it? Not this trip. We’re sort of vacationed out.
However, Judy has remained on moose alert. She came close this morning but it turned out to just be moose horns and not 2 moose trying to illegally cross the border.
Peter recommended a couple of good places to stop for lunch but unfortunately neither were convenient on our beeline timeline. We did stop at Birkenshaw’s in Amherst, NS, which was rated by someone last year as Canada’s #1 Tea House. And, yes, they serve tea in teapots with cups and saucers and a variety of English tea & lunch specialties including Scotch eggs. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen those on a menu. We didn’t order them but I later looked up the recipe. (You can too.) The photo was taken outside. The Scotsman was carved from a tree trunk and painted. Whoever did it, did a pretty good job.
From there we drove through heavy rain most of the way to Maine. We were sooooo lucky to have been blessed by good weather for most of our trip especially in Newfoundland where we understand it can be quite rainy.
Word of the day… pinky = a waterfront drink consisting of two parts cheap port wine and one part Screech, a rum. (Apparently Screech tastes so bad you’ll let out a screech if you swallow it, something a true Newfoundlander must do at least once. If interested, https://screechrum.com/screech-ins will tell you more. (Did we try it? You’ve got be kidding!)
In Nova Scotia, w/ a carved Scotsman, surely you had a Scots tea, not an English one.
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