Between 23,500 steps and 235 km driving, we took in the highlights of Charlottetown and a portion of PEI's Points East Coastal Drive over 2 jam-packed days in early October 2025.
Tag: walking tour
Out and About in Halifax, Nova Scotia
With just one full day to explore Halifax, it's possible to craft an itinerary that includes history, architecture, beautiful outdoor spaces and walking paths. Our top picks: Halifax Central Library, a walk along the harbour front, Halifax Citadel and the Halifax Public Gardens.
Review: Deep Time Walk
A mash up of science, technology and the humanities, the Deep Time Walk app invites the listener on a time travel experience - any time, any where. While walking 4.6 km in the virtual company of a narrator, a scientist and a fool, take an imaginary trip, 4,600 million years back in time, to when the Earth formed. Then with each step, meter-by-million-years forward, it’s an immersive and informative journey to the present day, where the industrial age represents but a hair’s breadth on the geological time scale.
Out and About in Reykjavík
Despite the restrictions imposed by our oldest son's university work term calendar, we squeezed in a two-week summer holiday. We opted for Iceland, even though we knew going in we most likely wouldn't see northern lights, that ice caves would be off limits and that we would probably be sleeping through golden hour each night …