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It must be feeling left out, given the sudden love-in with a certain western province.

Let's see how many interesting things we can say about PEI.

One rule: potatoes, Anne of Green Gables and Confederation references are not allowed.

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Bleak in winter, expensive to come from due to the ferry, pretty houses cheap. Big red mud.

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Home province of the 'country' singer that non-country fans in Canada can deal with. Think Skinners Pond.

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You obviously haven't been there recently. Regular ferry service stopped when the bridge was opened in 1997.

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I've never been there. Is the bridge free or does the same problem apply?

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Full of carnies that smell of cabbage, and have small hands.

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He was born in NB.

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It made CNN's 'best places to visit in 2017' nuff said.

17 best places to visit in 2017 - CNN.com

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They charge you for leaving ( about $40 I believe )

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I've never been there either. The bridge toll is $46.50 for a car, which puts it on a par with the Heathrow Express.

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When I visited in September, you don't pay to go to PEI but when you leave, you pay $70 for the ferry and $46 for the bridge toll.

Lots of farmland

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Darn, was going to mention Hope animal sactuary but their in NS.

PEI, it's the smallest Province yet one of the most beautiful, I think. I'd love to go there.

You can spin and create things from bunny wool, pick wild oysters and go out on a lobster boat, learn to play the spoons.

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So, the $46.50 is really a ransom? You have to pay it to be allowed to leave?

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True. I believe that a number of years were spent in Skinners Pond and that is where the Stompin' Tom museum was (now sadly closed down).

PEI does have a great potato museum..which on initial reflection could be construed as an oxymoron.

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Lots and lots of farmed mussels.

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You broke the thread rule!

You are banned.

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Are you sure? Ive been on the ferry a couple of times since 1997.
Nova Scotia - PEI Schedule - Northumberland Ferries

Unless you are referring to a daily ferry service. Costs $71 for a car plus passengers.

Cows ice cream.

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Damn..I should have read the full set of rules. Is 1st prize a week in PEI and 2nd prize 2 weeks:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Speaking of costs to leave the island, at Christmas time we ended up paying 43 euros for a road tunnel between France and Italy. The sticker shock on that 13 km tunnel was something I wasn't expecting.

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It's home to a rather good seeds/plants mail/internet order establishment.

That's all I've got given thread rule about root vegetables :sneaky:.

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I think it's lovely. Summerside is beautiful, with lots of little craft shops and restaurants on a boardwalk. Like you see on old films of the US seaside. Charlottetown is 'the Home of Confederation' and has some very nice architecture, good looking squares with historic homes and a fort - very entertaining to visit. It's very flat, with softly rolling fields and looks a bit like English countryside. It is dreadful in winter with snow drifting all over, they have trucks picking it up and taking it out of Charlottetown. The Confederation Bridge is hugely impressive, and the museum/centre at the end of it well worth a visit. Like everything in Canada PEI is a bit of a faff to get to, but well worth it. I could eat till I'm sick there...seafood of every sort, very yum:thumbup:

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I see 2 references to the C word as outlined in post #1.
I shall let Souvy decide the appropriate punishment.

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The punishment is two weeks in a log cabin in PEI. In January. With Partially Discharged (numbers could well grow, given the absence of reading skills on this forum).

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Doesn't nearly everywhere in Canada have snow removed by trucks to somewhere out of town?

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Around here, yes. Towns even fight about it, sometimes. Especially since legislation stopped "dumping it on the ice up the far end of the lake & waiting for spring".

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Here too, in places. On my street, the municipal policy seems to be to come round with a backhoe and dump everything on people's front yards. They were here a couple of days ago. I won't be seeing my Bell or Videotron boxes again for a while.

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How annoying😡. I have a recording/photos somewhere of a convoy of snow-clearing machinery loading excess snow into trucks to be transported and dumped elsewhere.

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I saw a video of something like that (Montreal, I think) only about a week ago.

Tractor/blower and trucks crawling along side by side and the one behind taking over when the one in front was full.

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On the other hand, I was going to have to shift that stuff anyway. It was heavy (mostly ice).

When we were up in St. Augustin recently, I saw a meanest-looking blower ever. The augurs were about six feet wide and there were two of them in a stack. I later saw it in action. Tabernac!

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Yup. :nod:

That's the sort of machinery we're used to around here, Caliss ;)!

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I've forgotten where you are these days.

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Toujours Qc, mostly :). Still based North of MTL & South of Tremblant; sometimes up by La Macaza & Riviere Rouge, sometimes as far South as around Rigaud/Hawkesbury.

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OT I know, but there is a mighty machines (kid's show) about snow clearing and it's set in Montreal and shows the process, trucks loaded up, dumping through grilles which I believe feed the snow into the river / canal / whatever.

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Are you living in a Winnebago?

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Good Lord no!

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Anything but that Milud Please! I cook a very good Baked Potato...but it may not be used in my defense I fear...perhaps Oyster eating in a contrite fashion whilst dingling my toes on a broad walk sounds fair:(

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I forget the place exists until someone mentions it. From photos looks like a nice place to visit. A bit too far to visit from this side of the country, but maybe one day I'll make it all the way to the other side.

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Might I suggest that this thread is an early symptom of deep winter depression for all BE residents in Canada?

Oh, and potatoes.

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Can ban.
Can ban unban.