Restaurant Review # 2 and a bit of history

Once again we are eating seafood.  Of course we are in the "Maritimes" the coastal provinces of Canada so well — duh.  We are now on Prince Edward Island having left New Brunswick — little geography here.  Anyway back to the review.  This place was highly recommended by locals we met in one of the small towns (they all are)  on the Island.  Some of the food is a bit strange though.  We tried mozzarella cheese and gravy on fries with a fish sandwich and mashed potatoes and green peas with fried haddock.  And it was good.  Condiments choices were white and malt vinegar.

Decor was plain and rustic.  and it was crowded.  Tourists mostly I think but the waitresses seemed to greet some customers by name.  Seafood was all that was on the menu.

Brehauts, by the way, is the name of the place and I do not think it is supposed to be German but if it is they are the only Germans anywhere around amongst all these English.

The reason seafood was all that was on the menu is because the restaurant is just across a little bridge from this scene.  This is Murray Harbor and all there is to it.  About ten fishing boats and a couple of sheds and a pile or two of lobster cages and crab catching things.  A dozen or so houses, and I do not think even a post office or more than one store.  Did have a Baptist church.

We drove along the coastal highway through fields of yellow grain and green potato vines.  Views were quite nice,. Beach front property tends to be farms, like real farms with potato fields, wheat fields, horses and cows, or just plain ole wood lots. Read in the news paper that PEI - as the island is known - exports potatoes around the world.

Also they have some old lighthouses that are now little museums that have a few artifacts and charge you a couple of bucks to get in — seniors get a discount. This one was not heavily visited when we were there.  Probably was not after we left either.

The view from the top looks out over the Northumberland Strait.  (separates the island from New Brunswick).  In the old days used to ice over in chunks.

Back in Charlottetown we went for a bike ride around town. Stopped by the Lt. Governor's house and gardens on the bike trail — the day had cleared up and was very nice after a rainy start as was obvious from the photo above.

Below is Canada's version of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.  This is where "the Confederation" of Colonies got together and decided to declare independence from England in 1864.  Quebec, Ontario,  Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were the first four provinces to form Canada as an independent nation.  There are now 10 provinces and three territories.  Of course Canada retained the symbolic and close relationship with the British Empire and became independent without discord that arose with our separation from England.  I am thinking England might have learned something about Empires.  The building is very famous and is on the license plate of PEI.

Also the statute is in remembrance of WWI soldiers, later added WW II and Korean War engraving.  The Great War is being commemorated in the news here quite a bit.  There was a lot of Canadian participation starting in 1914.