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July 28, 2013

Jump on the Magic Wine Bus in Wolfville and Sip the Fine Wines of Nova Scotia

Gaspareau Vineyards, Annapolis Valley NS.

Nova Scotia is a wine destination. I never, ever thought I’d be writing about Canadian wine but this province has all that they need to become a world class place to taste wine and their farmers are growing more and more vines instead of the traditional crops like apples and […]

July 26, 2013

Lunenburg’s Future is Much Different than its Past

Today we drove across the big peninsula of Nova Scotia, from the Annapolis Valley down to the jewel of the south coast, Lunenburg. The town is famous, it’s a UNESCO World Heritage site because of the lovely preserved 1750s architecture and perfect grid of the downtown. The building colors are […]

July 26, 2013

Nova Scotia Is Becoming a Wine Powerhouse

Picking lavender at the Tangled Garden in Grand Pre NS

Nova Scotia has a familiarity that reminds us of the US east coast. Perhaps a little Vermont, mixed with some Rhode Island, but bigger. There are lots and lots of farms, and in the distance along the coast glimpses of the ocean. The distances are much longer as we found […]

July 24, 2013

Halifax Nova Scotia: A City of Firsts With a Serious Working Waterfront

Nova Scotia is as nice a place as I thought it would be. It’s kind of like Maine, but there are some things here that are way more dramatic. On a double-decker bus tour this afternoon, we drove around this compact city of about 400,000 and saw the impressive seaport–and […]

July 22, 2013

Nova Scotia on a Plane Tonight, first a Drive to Montreal

We are madly packing for a trip to Nova Scotia this week. We will drive to Montreal and at 5 pm take the Porter Airlines flight over to Halifax. Many people have asked us why we’re not taking the ferry from Maine. The sad answer is that there is no […]

July 21, 2013

Green River Fest 2013: No lines, Plenty of Great Music, Balloons Tethered

The first day of Green River Festival 2013 was fun, just as much fun as I hoped it would be. What I sensed and confirmed among many people I asked was that this year the crowd was smaller….but it was just as enthusiastic as ever. When I went up to […]

July 18, 2013

Are You Going to the Green River Fest? The Answers are Mixed

Last night I played drums, like I do every Wednesday night, and I asked my music making chums if they were going to this year’s Green River Festival. It’s become such a tradition for me, and I see so many of my old friends there, I wondered how many of them were […]

July 12, 2013

Dishcrawl Pioneer Valley Invades Easthampton

A really exciting place these days is… Easthampton! People are talking about Popcorn Noir, and Coco and the Cellar Bar, and that great rail trail so easy to come from Northampton. I want to spend more time in Easthampton. In a few weeks is a great way for you to […]

July 12, 2013

A Smile from Northern France

In the seaside town across from the giant fish market, a smile in Boulogne-sur-Mer

July 10, 2013

Over the Deerfield River on I-91, A Peek at the New Highway between the Bridges

A few times a week I drive on Rte 91 and look down to where the new bridges are being built over the Deerfield river. The project, costing about $40 million, is set to be completed by 2016. Today I finally got to see what the bridge that is being […]

July 7, 2013

A Three Generation Vacation in the Endless Mountains

I’m back from a week’s vacation with 20 or so members of my extended family and what a time we had! I had worried a bit about the old sophomore jinx…could this trip be as fun as last year, when we first came to this gigantic house on a lake […]

June 29, 2013

Off to Magic-land, for a Week of Family and no Connections

I’ve been stalling because I’ve got a five-and-a-half hour drive ahead of me. I’ll be taking a course through New York State and then …well I am sworn to secrecy about my destination, so I will not provide those details. I am meeting the entire family down there, it’s a […]

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