GC44

We are thinking about having a week next July on the east coast. Would anyone be able to recommend any particular area to stay. We would be staying in a B&B. There's myself plus wife plus 13 year old daughter. We are just after a relaxing time by the sea with a bit of scenery, you can only take so much excitement at my age .
Canada by the way, before someone mentions Skegness!

Tangram

PEI

Atlantic Xpat

If you are looking for a facsimile of South Devon without the clotted cream but with Anne of Greengables, then I agree, PEI is the place to go. Otherwise go really East young man and come visit The Rock.

dbd33

I like Gros Morne but banging in tent pegs was a struggle. On the east coast we rented a boat and sailed out to look at some outports. To be in a village that was intact but abandoned because the population had been collectivized was very strange, Chernoblic even. Inland a bit we borrowed a cabin which was the only structure on a large lake, very different from the sort of cottage subdivisions one sees in Ontario. So, rugged, outdoorsy, Canadiana. The problem though is that Newfoundland has dreadful weather and it's a bit wild, one sees moose on the road, that sort of thing.

Cape Breton, otoh, is scenic in a coast-of-Cornwall kind of way while being more heavily populated. The Disney version of Newfoundland is apt, the sea crashes on rocks and it looks wild but you're never far from a restaurant, many of them branches of familiar chains.

Atlantic Xpat

Your experience of Newfoundland, whilst valid in some respects is out of date. There are cabin subdivisions aplenty and restaurants (in St. John's at least) of every type and quality level.

dbd33

I've not been to, or near, St. John's. I understand it to be the Disney version of Newfoundland.