Boston Canada Travel

If you’re traveling internationally with your iPhone, BEWARE. It’s not the phone charges that will kill you, it’s the international data roaming rates! While I was recently in Canada on business, I received the following email from AT&T. “Our current data charges based on data use of 475.83 MB since leaving the US are: $7,137.45! [...]

Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia, Celebrates its 200th Anniversary this Summer This summer, join the locals in celebrating 200 years of existence at Peggy’s Cove. Activities will include the Peggy’s Cove Art Festival, (July 1-14), and the Fishing Derby, (August 20-21), to name a couple. A cross between the fishing village of Gloucester and the picturesque [...]

Earlier this year, a proposal was sent for the Grand Pré site to be included as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012, which would relegate it to the level of the pyramids of Egypt and Nova Scotia’s Joggins fossils cliffs, among other world-renowned sites. Grand Pré, translated to mean Great Meadow, is the locale [...]

Pictured here is Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a cross between Carmel, California and Rockport, Massachusetts. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, step back in time to an era when whaling, ship-building and ocean-based commerce were the main industries of this picturesque fishing village. Established in 1753 as the second British Colonial settlement in Nova Scotia, Lunenburg [...]

For this year’s Easter Vacation, why not try something different and head up north to Nova Scotia? At the White Point Beach Resort, a family- and pet-friendly resort, they offer Easter activities for kids, including Easter egg hunts, Easter crafts and a family Easter photo. This year, with their unseasonably warm weather, there may even [...]

While most people think Nova Scotia is an island, like its popular neighbor, Prince Edward Island, it is actually a peninsula. It’s an 8-hour drive from Boston to Saint John without stopping, so why not break it up and see some of New England and New Brunswick’s best-kept secrets on the way? Even though ferry [...]