Roundtrip by motorhome in Nova Scotia

Hi y´all,

i´ll be touring Nova Scotia/Cape Breton Island, maybe Prince Edward
Island for 3 weeks from mid september, starting from Halifax.

- So, is there a recommended travelling direction (i.e. Cape Breton
first considering the time of the year?
- Is it possible to tour all three places comfortably within 3 weeks?
- Recommendable camping-sites, camping-sites to be avoided?

Any hints,suggestions and recommmendations are welcome.

Juergen

On 10 Apr 2007 in rec.travel.usa-canada, =?UTF-8?B?
SsO8cmdlbiBPcnRtw7xsbGVy?= wrote:

i¶ïll be touring Nova Scotia/Cape Breton Island, maybe Prince Edward
Island for 3 weeks from mid september, starting from Halifax.

- So, is there a recommended travelling direction (i.e. Cape Breton
first considering the time of the year?

Particularly if you're in a motor home, go around Cape Breton (or at
least the Cabot Trail) in a clockwise direction. If you go around
anticlockwise, you'll be on the seaward side, which could lead to
vertigo:

http://www.northeasthighlands.com/todo/cbh.htm

If your trip will leave you there through early October and you like
Celtic music, check into Celtic Colours, which takes place at venues
all over Cape Breton. It starts 5 October:

http://www.celtic-colours.com/core.php

One place I particularly like is the Alexander Graham Bell National
Historic Site in Baddeck:

http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/grahambell/index_e.asp

- Is it possible to tour all three places comfortably within 3 weeks?

It's doable, depending on what you want to visit, but it's tight. What
do you like to do? Where would you like to visit?

- Recommendable camping-sites, camping-sites to be avoided?

Any hints,suggestions and recommmendations are welcome.

The provincial travel offices, which are scattered around the province,
are extremely helpful. In addition to the usual brochures, etc, they
have good maps, and they'll call ahead and book accomodations for you.

Request the Doers & Dreamers travel guide from the province; it's
worthwhile:

http://novascotia.com/en/home/planatrip/travel_guides/

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

Joe Makowiec writes:
Particularly if you're in a motor home, go around Cape Breton (or at
least the Cabot Trail) in a clockwise direction. If you go around
anticlockwise, you'll be on the seaward side

Huh? Go anticlockwise, so you'll be on the view side.

which could lead to vertigo...

Come now.
--
Mark Brader "I already checked, and there are 2147483647
Toronto natural numbers (I made a simple Java program
to count them)." -- Risto Lankinen

On Apr 10, 10:19 am, Jürgen Ortmüller wrote:
Hi y´all,

i´ll be touring Nova Scotia/Cape Breton Island, maybe Prince Edward
Island for 3 weeks from mid september, starting from Halifax.

- So, is there a recommended travelling direction (i.e. Cape Breton
first considering the time of the year?
- Is it possible to tour all three places comfortably within 3 weeks?
- Recommendable camping-sites, camping-sites to be avoided?

Any hints,suggestions and recommmendations are welcome.

Juergen

Be sure to go to the scotch distillery!