Yesterday has a very good chance of being the high lite day of the trip! We started by driving through Sydney and after a quick drive to sight see this beautiful little city we headed up to Glace Bay to the Miner's Museum. We looked at the museum artifacts while waiting for our 11 AM mine tour. The tour was AMAZING!!!. The guide was a retired miner who was able to bring alive what it was like to work in the mines and how terrible the working conditions were and how awful the mine owners were! After that we went down into the mine and our guide explained all aspects of mining while we hunched over getting through the mine shafts. Creepy and fascinating at the same time.
After the tour we headed over to the Miner's museum Cafe and had a great lunch. All the locals were eating there too so we knew it would be good.
From there we drove to the Louisburg town and Fortress. We had about 2 hours there before it closed ar 5 and that turned out to be about the right amount of time. The french replica town has been much improved since the family was there in 1975 and it is now full of replica (but historically correct) buildings. We enjoyed the cannon shots! I got some video of that!
We drove back to North Sydney to get our new BnB . We had wanted this BnB the previous night but they were full so we had chosen another. The BnB has a fantastic reputation which is why we stayed in North Sydney a second night rather another town which might have been more convenient travel wise for us.
It was an 138 year old Victorian house and our room had a balcony which was wonderful to sit out and enjoy the evening, but not before we went back to Sydney to walk the harbour front walk and enjoy some fish and chips
We had a great sleep!
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