Just a little wine at Jost

Today we hopped on our motorcycles and drove to Quinpool Road, where we had cheesecake last night; Gavin had seen a nice little coffee shop, so we had breakfast there.  Then we finished our time in Halifax by seeing the main landmark; The Citadel.  We wandered around a bit, and the most exciting part was we got to see a woman dressed in traditional military gear shoot an original Enfield single shot rifle.  We didn’t spend much time at the Citadel, as we wanted to try and get out of town before noon.  :)

Shooting the Enfield single shot.

View of Halifax from the walk up to the Citadel.

Non-talkative soldier "guarding" the Citadel.

Outside there was a WW1 trench built.  I doubt the guys in the real ones
would have been smiling like me...

This is the Noon Gun.  They shoot it off every noon since 1857! We heard
it today from our hotel room as we were packing up to leave.

After loading our motorcycles back onto the trailer (which takes us over an hour!) we stopped in to the Scotia Mall to have a quick lunch of some of the most tasteless Indian food we have ever had, then we were on the road to Prince Edward Island!

On the way to Prince Edward Island we wanted to stop by the Jost Vineyard to buy some wine; we had been drinking several varieties of Jost wine throughout the trip and wanted to bring some back since they don’t export it from Nova Scotia!  We arrived at Jost in the late afternoon, and we got to try three difference kinds of wine apiece, plus a bonus maple dessert wine, which was really tasty!

Wine tasting at Jost Vineyard.

The tasting bar, and me being silly.  :)

After buying some wine to take back to the US, we finally got out our bicycles, which had been stuffed in the back of the Xterra for the whole trip, to bike around the vineyards.  (note, getting the bikes out required us to take absolutely ALL our luggage, etc, out of the car, get the bikes out, then put it all back in, only to have to do it again to put the bikes away…)  The vineyards were bright green, and almost all the vines had grapes.  The bike ride itself was rather short for all the work we did to get the bikes out of the car.  Maybe at most we rode 10 minutes including stops for photos…

Grapes on the vines.

A lovely, albeit short, bike ride through the vineyard.

After visiting Jost, we drove the Sunset Trail, another scenic coastal driveacross the north of Nova Scotia to get to the bridge over to New Brunswick.  This road was another lovely scenic coastal drive.  We spent a little time driving through New Brunswick to get to the Confederation Bridge, an impressive 9 mile (!!) bridge over to Prince Edward Island.

After checking in to our hotel in Charlottetown, we headed toward the waterfront to have dinner.  We stopped in Victoria Row, where we saw several restaurants with outside seating, and there was a live jazz band playing to entertain us.  After dinner we headed back to the hotel and caught up on some boring computer work (shame on us for working on vacation! :) ), then went to sleep.  Tomorrow we will take our first motorcycle trek through Prince Edward Island!

Dinner in Victoria Row, Charlottetown.

Victoria Row at night.