PEI 2014 NHK special

On www.cbc.ca there is an article about

Japan airing 156-part series on Green Gables translator

P.E.I. hoping Hanako Muraoka profile will bring tourists.

 

Hopefully, a few more Japanese tourists will visit the east coast. Just too bad it's so darn far to fly.

At Anne of Green Gables, National Historic Site Interpretation centre.

Leena's souvenier

 

Chess anyone?

My son and I were thrilled to find a garden chess set at Kindred Spirits Inn and Cottages. We had fun playing with it.

Leena wants to be Queen!

How should we take each other out?

Ian and Leena contemplate their next move

Luggage

So what do you do when facing a very long trip somewhere and want a unique piece of luggage which you'll find quickly!

Why not get an army duffel bag!

For my birthday, I bought a Highlander Pro-Force Loader British Army style kit bag. It's olive green, with a back pack system, and three pockets. Two sides, and a main compartment.

I thought this would be good for my trip. It was, but at the last moment, I decided to sew a Canadian flag on one of the pocket flaps. Good thing, as there were about 20 other olive green duffle bags, as about 20 US military personnel were on the flight I went to Canada on. I flew via Chicago.

Food from home.

My Dad gave me a cookbook Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens, published by Nimbus in 1989

 

I also was given several envelopes of gravy mixes. One was of the hot chicken sandwhich by Lonry's

So tonights dinner is a frypan chicken stew with dumplings, potatoes, onions carrots and chicken.