Mike and Jocelyn had warned us that this town tends to suck people in. People come for a visit and stay for way longer than initially planned or never leave at all. The former came true for us. The vibe and hospitality were just amazing.
The Blomidon Inn in Wolfville. Beautiful and historic.
The Irving Center at the local Acadia University.
Our third night in Wolfville, we spent with a cyclist family whose contact we found on the Warmshowers.org hospitality service site. We arrived at their house with no notice but Danielle immediately invited us in, made sure we could safely store the bikes in their basement and then she cooked us the most amazing dinner. The "most amazing" part about this meal is that the rice was grown in Nova Scotia, not far from where we sat when we ate this meal. I did not know that you can grow rice in Nova Scotia!!! How cool!!!
THANKS DANIELLE, IT WAS GREAT STAYING WITH YOU AND THE KIDS!
Next day we really weren't sure what to do. We had had plans to do some apple picking just for the fun of it but it started raining again so we ended up sitting in the Tim Hortons for most of the morning, switching tables a few times so the staff would not become suspicious. It looked like we would have to stay in Wolfville another night because the weather was not very travel friendly. We contacted another guy from the Warmshowers site and he said we could stay as long as we wanted. He lived a few kilometers north of Wolfville so in the evening we rode out to his place. Scott gave us a warm welcome, insisted we just make ourselves at home, eat and drink whatever we can find in the kitchen and stay as long as we want.
Scott works for the Air Force and he happened to get called into work the same night we arrived so we ended up having the entire place to ourselves. We made a nice dinner and clearly had too much fun eating steamed green beans.
We ended up staying at Scott's for five nights. On the first day I spent most of the time working on this blog but on the following day we got some fresh air again. Scott had left us the spare key for his car and insisted we take it for a nice drive to where ever we wanted to go. So, we drove out towards Cape Split. Below is the view of the Annapolis Valley from the north mountain.
On the other side of the north mountain we took a little detour down to the beach. It was beautiful but cold and really windy. The photo below shows interesting grass formations with the water of the Bay of Fundy in the distance.
The churning Bay of Fundy.
Maritime impressions
Unfortunately it was too late in the day for us to hike the 8 km out to the tip of Cape Split but we still got a good 45 min walk in along the wooded path.
Bay of Fundy
Next day was work day for us. There was a mid-week farmers market in Kentville that morning so we rode over to try selling some of our photo cards. The market was held indoors at this time of the year and there was no room inside so we ended up standing outside for 4 hours. We took turns wearing James' furry Russian hat, which he had bought in China, and regular wrestling matches and fist fights kept us warm while no customers were nearby.
After a quick lunch break at Scott's house, we were off to Wolfville for the evening market. There we were given a space indoors as well as wall space to put up a map. It was such a great evening. The people in this town are just so amazing. People were constantly coming and going, sharing their own travel stories and wanting to hear ours. Business was also very successful.
This kind man, whose name I have forgotten, is the one who took the above picture of us. I could not help but ask whether I could take his picture because this is truly the longest beard I have ever seen. It is about 40 years old.
Scott's favourite place to eat is a local Crepe shop. He and his friend Claudia invited us there for dinner. Mmmm delicious!
On our last evening in Wolfville, Claudia and Scott invited several of their cycling friends over for a little party. Claudia mixed colourful drinks for everybody and it was an overall fun time.
SCOTT AND CLAUDIA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING US. YOUR TRUST AND HOSPITALITY ARE TRULY INSPIRING!
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