The morning started with nearly cloudless skies, warm like in the tropics and silence over the lake.
Just when we left, we found ourselves in deep automn fog, which did not last long. Leaving very early brought us tailwind, and we sailed the first 55 km in less the 2 hours without any effort. We were really trying to get forward, because the severe weather warning due to the tropical storm Irene.We wanted to be on a safe place by the evening. The temperature was 26 degrees or more, really hot and nice to bike.
And we saw, whta Canadien men do on a Saturday, the cut their lawns. On every second house someone was sitting on a little lawnmower tractor and seemed to enjoy it. Houses seem to have lawn in excess of 1 hectare (3 acres), all cut properly loking like a carpet. We reckoned, it a way to mark the the pivate ground, mowing it! But these large lawns are a big concern, all the noise from the mowers, the fuel they burn, leaving surfaces looking neat but being ecological desserts, even worse, they get regularly sprayed with pesticides.
During the day we crossed over from Cape Breton to main Nova Scotia, again leaving a wonderful region behind, though curious what the next brings. On our way we found a little German coffee shop with a cultural center and a real estate dealer, everything was written in German too. We had each a piece of delicious torte (cake) and even more important, had the best coffee ever in Canada.
That is something we really miss, good bread and a coffee, that deserves its name. What you get here is black bitter water, called coffee, only drinkable with a lot of sweetener! On our way, we started to think, that there might be a very good business opportunity, as we see so opps many here!
We arrived late and exhaused in our next B&B, still the storm did not hit us here.
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