People sometimes ask if, in our retirement, we go south for the winter.
Although we often get as far south as Boston, we normally head north. We’ve
circumnavigated Newfoundland four times, visited Iceland in January,
explored the Gaspésie, shopped beneath the streets of Montreal, and spent
winters in Maine’s Thomaston to Belfast seacoast.
In Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, we are “from away”. At the moment we are
as far away from our chaotic world as is imaginable. We’re in the
Îles-de-la-Madeleine, the archipelago in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, about
equidistant from Newfoundland, Labrador, and Prince Edward Island. It’s
harder to get here and takes about four times as long as a trip to Paris or
Rome.
Winter comes early here. You are never more than about a mile from the sea…
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