First Nations, fairies, fishermen and trees that breathe

 

 Canadians were forest bathing longer than anywhere else on the planet. Over the past ten years the wellness industry has thrived, and is the fastest growing trend in travel.  Spending time outdoors, walking amongst trees, eating healthily, checking in to the negative ions only found by the sea, the region of Nova Scotia has it all. 

 

For a long weekend I checked into a driving tour around the coastal routes of the South shore of Nova Scotia. Heavily in touch with its Celtic routes, both in the names of the streets, towns and villages, the south shore’s connection to the immigrants who landed here, the French, German and the English – although as one tour guide mentioned before I started a tour of the town on Lunenburg, ‘the English don’t come out of this well.’ Indeed, the more I travelled and learnt about the history of this part of Nova Scotia, the more I realised what a lazy, lying and hypocritical race the English were, especially when they colonised this part of the world. The Mikmaq, the first nations welcomed the French, who settled happily, but then the English arrived, and promised land to farm, a short crossing to the promised land of a week (it took a month and a half),which was ‘rocks, rocks and more rocks’, and the only ones who were able to make a living were the three hundred Germans who made their home in Lunenburg, and to this day, people will introduce themselves as fifth, sixth or even tenth generation, as our guide for the day said. Its different now. The English tourists are welcome, but they do like to rub it in. 

 

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The image is of Lunenburg. 

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