Nova Scotia is brimming with perfect pairings this season. The radiant colours of Nova Scotia fall foliage are a wonderful complement to the pastoral vineyards of this seacoast province, and their award-winning wines are best coupled with the gourmet cuisine of the finest Nova Scotia restaurants.
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With roughly four million hectares of woodland rich with maple, birch, oak and mountain ash bursting into an explosion of brilliant colour, Nova Scotia makes the perfect backdrop for an outdoor autumn adventure.
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Fall Music FestivalsAutumn in Nova Scotia, that fun-loving, Celtic-kilted, little province by the sea, is the season of brilliant colours, sunny days, cool nights, and one rollicking, reeling music festival after another.
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Back around 1895, Walter Crowe, the mayor of the Cape Breton city of Sydney, organized the first round of golf on record in Nova Scotia. Crowe and his cronies made due with the resources on hand, playing in Victoria Park on grass kept short by grazing cattle.
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Have GPS, will travel: Geocaching in Nova Scotia
Remember burying treasure (a shoebox with a kazoo from your last birthday party, and four or five of your best bottle tops) and making a map (beneath the tree with the knee is the treasure you seek) when you were a kid?
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An Extraordinary Escape - Back Country Camping in Nova ScotiaSometimes, you just want to get away from it all. And there seem to be fewer and fewer places in the world where you can truly escape from the sound of a cellphone ringing or the ding of someone receiving email with their wi-fi enabled laptop.
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The Living Legends of Nova Scotia: Glooscap & The WhaleGlooscap, the mythic being created by the Great Spirit, was possessed of both human and God-like traits. Gifted by the Great Spirit with both spiritual and physical power, Glooscap is at the centre of many of the creation tales of Nova Scotia's first people, the Mi'kmaq.
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The world-renowned Nova Scotian hospitality welcomes everyone like a well-loved cousin from away, perhaps because so many people are just that. There are currently an estimated 25 million people in North America with a family connection to Nova Scotia.
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Seven WondersIn the challenge to name the Seven Wonders of Canada, three iconic Nova Scotia sites were named to the competition's short list.
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Music
Probably the last place you would expect someone to hand you a foam lobster would be at an Irish Festival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but this year anyone planning to attend the world’s largest Irish Festival in a state better known for its German heritage should be prepared to get "lobstered".
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