Happy Canada Day with Atlantic Canada - Destination Special
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
It’s July 1 which means it’s Canada Day and we are going to be celebrating Canada with this bonus destination special episode. Canada has been mentioned so many times as a favourite destination on the podcast by everyone from Ben Fogle and Dan Snow to Nadiya Hussain and Ella Eyre, and today, in celebration of Canada Day, I thought it would be a great opportunity to shine a light on a region of Canada that has historically been somewhat overlooked by tourists but is now gaining a real hype with in the know travellers, and that is the region of Atlantic Canada.
Today I’m joined by writer and adventurer Hugh Francis Anderson, who has written extensively about Atlantic Canada, and he’s here to share his travel diaries from the region.
Destination Recap
- The Alexander Murray Hiking Trail, Newfoundland & Labrador
- Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
- Bar Kismet, Halifax
- Kouchibouguac National Park, New Brunswick
- The Inn at Bay Fortune, Prince Edward Island
- Gros Morne National Park
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. I'm Holly Rubinstein, your host and travel |
| 0:12.6 | journalist. And here today it's July 1st, which means it's Canada Day. And we are going to be |
| 0:19.3 | celebrating Canada with this bonus destination special episode |
| 0:23.6 | and stay tuned to the end of the episode when I'll be announcing some big news too. |
| 0:29.1 | Canada has been mentioned so many times as a favourite destination on the podcast by everyone |
| 0:34.8 | from Ben Fogel and Dan Snow to Nadia Hussein and Ella Air. |
| 0:39.8 | And today in celebration of Canada Day, I thought it would be a great opportunity to shine a light |
| 0:46.2 | on a region of Canada that has historically been somewhat overlooked by tourists, but is now gaining |
| 0:51.0 | a real hype with In the No Travelers. And that's the region of Atlantic Canada. |
| 0:57.6 | Today I'm joined by writer and adventurer Hugh Francis Anderson, |
| 1:02.2 | who has written extensively about Atlantic Canada. |
| 1:05.0 | And he's here to share his travel diaries from the region. |
| 1:09.2 | Hugh, welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast and happy Canada Day. |
| 1:13.1 | Happy Canada Day. Thank you for having me, Holly. It's great to be here chatting with you. |
| 1:16.6 | Well, first and foremost, an area that is getting a real buzz about it. But actually, what the listeners |
| 1:24.2 | might want to know first is, you know, what actually is Atlantic Canada? What |
| 1:28.1 | parts of Canada comprise Atlantic Canada? Yeah, I mean, Atlantic Canada is a wonderful place. It's |
| 1:34.5 | the east coast, the eastern provinces of Canada. And it's comprised of four provinces. You found |
| 1:40.2 | on Labrador in the north coming down into Nova Scotia, there's Prince Edward Island and then New Brunswick. |
| 1:46.3 | And it's quite a remarkable place because it's about twice the size of the British Isles with a population of only two and a half million. |
| 1:53.3 | So it's quite undiscovered. |
| 1:55.1 | It's sort of quite a hidden gem of a place to actually get to visit and travel to. |
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