Having thoroughly explored Halifax, it was time to head north, and we made for a little town called Pictou, which is where the Prince Edward Island Leaves from.

Pictou is a quaint little harbour town, famous for being the first town settled by the Scottish pioneers of Nova Scotia. It was interesting, we stayed in the Pictou backpackers which was just some ladies house with 4 bedrooms that she rents out. That is not interesting in it self, far from it really, but what was interesting was that she took us on a bit of a history walking tour of the town. It amazes me that in the old days people were brave enough to just come to largely uninhabited areas on the other side of the globe from thier home and start fresh.

Other than that, there probably isn't a great deal to say about Pictou, and it probably wouldn't have waranted it's own post had I not run out of time while doing the last one, but there you go. When we got there there was a Country and Bluegrass music festival on, which I probably don't need to tell you we avoided like the plauge. We did have a magnificent seafood dinner in a restaurant overlooking the harbour, despite the fact they were out of lobster so I had to settle for clams.

Oh, and we discovered a new beer, Rickards Red and Rickards Pale Ale. Fantastic! They should serve it at the Earl of Liecester.