FREDERICTON TO PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Today we left for Prince Edward Island. The home of Anne of Green Gables.

I am sooooo excited (for those of you who don't think I appear to get that excited about stuff - this is the thing to prove you wrong).

I am a huge Anne fan and have wanted to visit Prince Edward Island for years. If you are an Anne fan you will know what I am talking about (Rach is about the only person I know who loves it the way I do so she will understand). If not, it's a great place to visit as it is a beautiful part of the world. I watched it on t.v. when I was younger (as well as reading the books) and it's the sort of thing I can watch over and over (just like Bones). For some reason it has a cathartic affect on me. I had a few really bad Christmases and lying on the couch for several days in my p.j.'s, while watching all the Anne series non-stop, helped me a lot.

Of course it could have just been escaping reality while watching t.v. but I can't imagine anything else that would have helped as much.

Right then.......................that just got a bit too serious, didn't it?

So we got to the hotel about midday and after checking in (we are staying in a place called Summerside) drove to Cavendish. This is where Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up and was raised by her grandparents after her mother died (she was only 21 months old) and is where the Anne books are set. We went to where her home used to be and on the historical walk that shows all the places she used as inspiration for her books. There is a Green Gables house - not the one she grew up in, which is no longer there, or the one from the mini-series) and we went through that and the other buildings they have as part of the "Green Gables" experience.

Poor Rob got dragged around all of this although he didn't complain. Although I did tell him it was only fair as I wouldn't have chosen to go to the Jack Daniels factory in Tennessee that he really wanted to go to.

But despite the Anne stuff (and the arts and crafts shop we went to after that) he is very impressed with the countryside. How could you not be? It is beautiful here.

Although like Vermont (and a lot of America it seems), no-one seems to have fences or landscaping. It's like they have just plonked houses here there and everywhere.

Very odd.

But pretty as there are no fences to obscure the views.