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Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by Partially discharged
(Post 12148487)
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. You are banned. |
Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by Souvy
(Post 12148334)
You obviously haven't been there recently. Regular ferry service stopped when the bridge was opened in 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. |
Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by Souvy
(Post 12148530)
You broke the thread rule!
You are banned. 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. |
Re: Thread to discuss PEI
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:. |
Re: Thread to discuss PEI
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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Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by MillieF
(Post 12150760)
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:
I shall let Souvy decide the appropriate punishment. |
Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian
(Post 12150778)
I see 2 references to the C word as outlined in post #1.
I shall let Souvy decide the appropriate punishment. |
Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by MillieF
(Post 12150760)
...It is dreadful in winter with snow drifting all over, they have trucks picking it up and taking it out of Charlottetown. ...
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Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12150817)
Doesn't nearly everywhere in Canada have snow removed by trucks to somewhere out of town?
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Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by Shirtback
(Post 12150829)
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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Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by Souvy
(Post 12150835)
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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Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by Shirtback
(Post 12150846)
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.
Tractor/blower and trucks crawling along side by side and the one behind taking over when the one in front was full. |
Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by Shirtback
(Post 12150846)
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.
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! |
Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12150850)
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.
Originally Posted by Souvy
(Post 12150855)
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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Re: Thread to discuss PEI
Originally Posted by Shirtback
(Post 12150879)
Yup. :nod:
That's the sort of machinery we're used to around here, Caliss ;)! |
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