Truro, NS to Grandma Bryden

In Truro we stayed at the Stonehouse motel and restaurant. It was a quick off the highway to a nice clean room with a nice Acadian restaurant, Cafe l’Acadie, where we enjoyed a great breakfast before we headed out. I enjoyed fish cakes and baked beans, a more traditional Acadian meal, while Jeffrey fueled up on eggs, bacon and toast.

We headed out on a beautiful day to Cape Breton, where the views became progressively more beautiful.

We took highway 4, the fleur de lis trail to Sydney, NS and enjoyed great motorcycle roads, picturesque views and splendid weather. I wish I could have taken photo after photo, there was so much to see.

We arrived in Sydney to visit my Grandma Bryden who is 93 years young. We had great conversations and I enjoyed introducing her to my husband for the first time.

We talked about family history and where our people came from, and I enjoyed learning about Thomas Bryden whose ship sank on the way to Canada, and he ended up on a ship with Scots heading to Cape Breton. The picture above is of my great grandmother, my Grandma’s mother, who lived well into her 90’s. Both Grandma and Aunt Cathy have been rich historians on this trip, and this has helped ground me to this land. Hooha! Jef & Margi