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Canada: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – Best Tasting Oysters

Mabou oysters are the best tasting oysters due to the cold water of Mabou Harbour. Can you tell how old this guy is by his rings?

Mabou Oysters

Canada: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – How to Make a Lobster Roll

This is how you chop lobster meat to make a tasty lobster roll at the Arichat Fish Market in Cape Breton.

 

 

Canada: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – Messy Chocolate Truffles s

I just made these chocolate truffles, almost from scratch, at the Fortress of Louisbourg. Messy, but I got to lick my spoon and my fingers.

Fortress Chocolate Truffles

Canada: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – Blue Lobster Out of Jail Soon

This 3 pound blue lobster is living temporarily at the Arichat Fish Market until they let him swim back home. Very unusual.

Giant Blue Lobster

Canada: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – Rare Blue Lobster

Blue lobsters are rare, but take a look at the other one. How does this happen? He lives at the Arichat Fish Market.

Blue Lobster

 

Canada: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – Sleep on a Straw Mattress

When visiting Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia, you have the opportunity to sleep in an authentic 18th century home. Reach out to Parks Canada to set it up but be aware that in that era, they slept on straw mattresses (you can throw a sleeping bag on top, though). Test yourself to see if you can live without electricity. In Rodrigue House, this is the bigger room, fine for the lady. The other smaller room had 2 single beds.

Fortress Sleeping

Canada: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – Dine in the 18th Century

When dining in 18th century, your napkin is worn as a bib. Great idea. We should start a trend. Here at the Fortress Louisbourg in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, you can dine on a traditional meal in authentic style with costumed servers.

Fortress Meal

 

 

Canada: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – Typical Meal in the 18th Century

In the eighteenth century at Fortress Louisbourg, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the lower class diet included locally prepared bread, spruce beer, meat or fish. Staples like butter, cheese, and rum were imported. Here I dined on pea soup and an apple tart for dessert. They ate with spoons. Gathering for a meal was not only for sustenance but also for news, companionship and games of chance.

Fortress Food

 

 

Canada: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – Smooth Rum

Fortress Louisbourg, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is producing smooth rum – a drink that would have been downed by rich and poor in the 18th century. Don’t forget to bring it home as a souvenir. Every time you feel the smooth liquor go down, you’ll remember your trip – and how lucky we are to live in this century. To buy it, just ask for Fortress Rum, what else?

Fortress Rum

Canada: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – Perfume Court

Before you enter Fortress Louisbourg, Cape Breton, NS, you can visit a fisherman’s cottage and learn about their lives in the 18th century. Perhaps they were the lucky ones living outside the walls, for the aboriginals said you could smell the fortress before you arrived as soldiers rarely bathed and there were no toothbrushes. Aboriginals stayed way outside the fortress. Now we know why Louis XV court was called the “perfume court” as they needed to cover up the human aromas.

Fortress Fisherman's Cottage