Our first night we drove into Charlottetown for a wonderful dinner in the old town on a street that is closed to traffic. Several great restaurants, shops and live music.
And what could be better than ice cream at Cows, the PEI chain serving wonderful premium ice cream.
Our second day we drove in the drizzle to Cavendish, via a drive along the coast of the Gulf of St Lawrence. The soil, sand and rocks are very red here, and the coastline views are spectacular.
We toured the Ann of Green Gables house in Cavendish
the site of the home where Lucy Maude Montgomery lived
and the beautiful surrounding grounds.
We drove to New Glasgow for a fabulous dinner at The Olde Glasgow Mill, and then went to a small theater in North Rustico for a play at the new Montgomery Theater. The play, first produced in 1922, was Tons of Money, very broad British humor, well done. All the plays done in this theater appear to have been written and first performed during Lucy Montgomery's lifetime.
Finally, on our last day on PEI, with cloudless perfect weather, we drove to the west side of the island to tour the PEI Potato Museum . PEI grows lots of potatoes, both for seed to export to other countries and for consumption. We learned that by far the largest percentage is used for - guess what? - French fries! Potato fields are all over the island. Beautiful landscapes with rolling hills are everywhere. Very like England.
After a great lunch (I had Malpeque Bay oysters-on-the-half-shell, farmed here) at a nice little pub we stumbled onto in a small hamlet, we played 9 holes of golf at a beautiful course not far from our RV park. Except for Fred, the rest of us were pretty marginal players!
We are sad to leave here. It's a beautiful place.
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