Prince Edward Island, Canada
Prince Edward Island bed and breakfast stays in the island province
Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name located in the Gulf of St Lawrence. There are many bed and breakfast establishments serving this striking and unusual part of the world. You will remember your P.E.I. bed and breakfast stay forever – the red farm fields, the evergreen forests and the silky white sand beaches. Prince Edward Island is Canada's smallest province. It has a tiny population with only 150 000 residents, who are referred to as Islanders. There is a local saying that to be a true Prince Edward Islander you have to have been born here. That is just a bit of pride and bravado. In reality Prince Edward Islanders enthusiastically welcome visitors to their bed and breakfasts, lodges and inns, and joyfully share their delicious home-grown produce, such as the island's famed new potatoes, or the abundance of tasty lobster caught in PEI waters.
P.E.I., as 'the Island' is almost always called, is home to some of the most beautiful scenery in Canada and delicious food particularly lobster, mussels, oysters and potatoes. The famous novel Anne of Green Gables is set in Prince Edward Island. In fact, it is difficult to talk about Prince Edward Island without getting round to the story of Anne of Green Gables. Author Lucy Montgomery classic tale tells a wonderful story of a girl growing up in the Green Gables area of PEI. Predictably this area is now the Island's most popular tourist attraction with many Prince Edward Island bed and breakfast businesses located near the Green Gables House in Cavendish. You can even watch a performance of Anne of Green Gables: The Musical at Charlottetown's Confederation Centre for the Arts. There is plenty opportunity for coastal leisure as Prince Edward Island bed and breakfast visitors know. You can spend time on one of the province's many beaches, or discovering the historical capital, Charlottetown, which bed and breakfast visitors love to tour. Charlottetown is a well-designed colonial seaport with tree-lined streets and rows of wood frame houses and stately colonial buildings.
The Confederation Bridge is the link between the Island and New Brunswick province on Canada's mainland .It was completed in 1997 to allow easier access to the province. Prince Edward Island bed and breakfast visitors should take the trouble to drive across it. The bridge is almost 13 km long and takes about 12 minutes to traverse. It is the longest bridge in Canada and the longest bridge over ice-covered waters in the world.
