Charlotetown is the biggest city on PEI. We are not sure what to expect but are looking forward to seeing it. We ride a fairly short distance again, but that may be good because the weather is supposed to be pretty nasty.
From St. Peter's Bay of the bad fish & chips, to Charlottetown, is about 70 km. The weather forecast is for fairly warm temperatures but rain and, sadly, very strong winds from the southwest, the direction we're heading. Nothing for it, though, so after a super breakfast at the BnB (I had Eggs Benedict, which I haven't had in decades. It was good, if a bit rich...) we got on the rain gear and headed down the road. Not 30 minutes into the ride the wind did what it was supposed to do and made the day pretty hard. At times the wind was so strong that I pulled my shoe off the pedal in case we got tipped over.
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| Can you see wind in a still photo? It is blurry because the rain. |
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| Lorie found a great farmers market on the outskirts of Charlottetown |
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| Lots of good stuff |
But for all my complaining about the weather, it wasn't that bad and we made it to "Town" fairly fast. The farmers market had all sorts of interesting food and we were pretty hungry. So we got some crab cakes and they were delicious!
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| Made with PEI rock crab rather than snow crab -- the women at the food stand said that the rock crab are better than the snow crab. |
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| Some of our route followed the "Confederation Trail." We were passing the runner, not the other way around. |
Charlottetown is pretty big. It has a large university and after 2 weeks in really rural settings it is a bit of a shock. But they have some good craft breweries and that helps with re-entry, right?
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| Upstreet Brewing |
The weather forecast is better for tomorrow. We are heading to the Confederation Bridge, which connects PEI to New Brunswick. We can't ride over the bridge but will put the bike on a shuttle. The bridge is about 10 km long (around 6 miles) and I don't like bridges very much.
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| The Confederation Bridge |
Looking forward to the mainland.
