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decade at its most stylish, while managing to stay calming and comfortable. Two rooms
can be joined to create a family suite.
Rudder's Brew Pub
PUB $$$
( 902-742-7311; 96 Water St; pub menu $8-14, dinner mains $14-32; 11am-late)
The 300
seats at this waterfront pub and restaurant fill fast. A mean ale is brewed on-site and
there's a wide-ranging menu. Drinks are poured until the wee hours on busy summer
nights.
Information
Visitors Information Centre
(VIC;
902-742-5033; 228 Main St;
7:30am-9pm May-Oct)
Also has a money-exchange counter.
Yarmouth Public Library
(
902-742-2486; 405 Main St;
10am-8pm Mon-Thu, to 5pm Fri,
to 4pm Sat, 1-4pm Sun)
Free internet access.
Getting There & Away
Cloud Nine Shuttle (
Click here
)
runs to Halifax.
A nightly ferry service to Portland, Maine is expected to begin in May 2014 with
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ANNAPOLIS VALLEY & FRENCH SHORE
Heading up the French Shore, you'll be regularly waved to by the Stella Maris, the
single-starred, tricolored Acadian flag. Admire the many elaborate Catholic churches,
stop at a roadside eatery to sample Acadian rappie pie (a type of meat pie topped with
grated pastelike potato from which all the starch has been drawn) and take a walk along a
fine-sand beach. If you stay longer, don't miss the chance to sample the region's foot-tap-
ping music performances that take place frequently in summer.
Continuing northeast, the Annapolis Valley was the main breadbasket for colonial
Canada and still produces much of Nova Scotia's fresh produce, especially apples. Re-
cently, wineries have taken advantage of the sandy soil. Make sure to get to the Fundy
coast at Annapolis Royal and eastwards for tidal vistas over patchwork farmland, red
sands and undulating hills.
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