And now the part of the holiday we have all been waiting for, the trip to Prince Edward Island, to visit Karen's own personal Mecca, Green Gables at Avonlea.

Let me say from the outset that P.E.I. is bloody magnificent. Great scenery, lovely people, delicious food and almost one golf course per person. The big claim to fame however, is L.M. Montgomery and her famous story, Anne of Green Gables. I am not saying they are milking this for all its worth, but there is a lot of Anne merchandise you can buy. Everything from an Anne pinafore to Anne red cordial.

We caught the ferry over from Nova Scotia, which was pretty cool, and the first place we went on the island after we got off of the ferry was to the Anne of Green Gables store, purveyors of all things Anne, to pick up some stuff. Karen was happy to finally snag all three movies on DVD, as well as the soundtrack on CD. It turns out that PEI is the only place in the world that sells the DVD's, and they are priced accordingly at $55 each. Ouch. I bought 15 DVD's for that sort of dosh in Thailand.

Anyway, after visiting the store and trying on the official Anne hat complete with red pigtails, we decided it was time for lunch, so it was off to Wendy's. No not the icecreamery, Wendy's is a hamburger chain here. North America has a whole shit load of fast food chains, and we have done our best to try to have as many of them as we can. Wendy's is just like McDonald's, except they use square rissoles.

North America also has a vast array of potato chip flavours, which again, all warrant tasting. On PEI, I got a bag of lobster flavoured chips. Pretty yummy, although not remarkably like lobster.

After the visit to the shop, the real pilgrimage began. We fired up the Grand Am and headed up to the township of Cavendish, taking in some stunning coastline along the way. Cavendish is the home of the author Lucy Montgomery, and also the site of Green Gables. We ducked in for a visit, and Karen marveled at looking around famous places from the story such as the cottage and Lovers Lane. I just walked around wishing the boys from home were with me so I could be playing the magnificent golf course next door.

We spent the night in the Green Gables Cabin park, which was lovely. We stayed in a quaint wooden cabin right in the heart of Anne country, and had a lobster supper for tea. As you may have gathered, this part of Canada has plenty of lobster. So much so that they used to use it for fertilizer! They are not quite that free with it now, but my whole lobster dinner and full salad bar only came to about $35.

The next day was the culmination of all things Anne for us, when we visited Avonlea, the Anne theme park! (code named PWW - refer to the late show if you don't get this). Sure enough it was a recreation of Avonlea from the story, with actors in costume to boot. I must admit that Karen probably enjoyed this more than I did, but I did draw some amusement from the fact that Anne Shirley, the mischievous rat bag that she is, hung shit on Karen for claiming that she flew to Canada from Australia.