| Next to North Rustico is the small town of Cavendish.
This is quite a tourist town totally built upon the book "Anne of Green
Gables". This is the house described in the book, carefully painted in
green, and now a national heritage site. Not having read the book we found
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Driving along we passed many fields of the crop for which PEI is famous.
This is the potato. As in Scotland from where many of the inhabitants came,
the environment is ideally suited to the growth of this staple. PEI grows 13
different vatieties, including the 'Irish cobbler'. |
| We did end up on another heritage road which like many
others, is not surfaced, but merely graded. Regrading is probably a
continuous task although the surface seemed firm and our 7.5 tons seemed to
do it no harm. |  |
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Lt Col Ernest Johnstone returned from the first world war with a dream. He
bought a farm and named it Woodleigh after his ancestral home in
Scotland. After WWII he started to build replicas of famous British
buildings. Over 3 million people have since visited his estate. This is
Dunvegan castle. There are rooms inside with some furniture and a dungeon,
and they are just big enough to be entered. |
| Most of the models are from further south. This is the
Tower of London albeit somewhat smaller. This took him about five years to
build. |  |
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It contains all the separate buildings including the White Tower, Waterloo
Barracks, the Bloody Tower, the Chapel of St Peter and Officers Quarters.
You can go inside where you find original antiques and paintings. |
| The real Tower contains the 'Crown jewels' and these
are represented here although I suspect that the quantities of gold and
jewels are limited. |  |
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We looked in the Old Curiosity Shoppe. It has two floors of items including
a penny farthing bicycle. |
| There are gardens in an English style including this
lake with willows and lilies and bridges across the narrow parts. |  |
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Some of the models are rather smaller like this one of Anne Hathaway's
cottage flanked by Shakespeare's house and that of his mother. |
| This is Shakespeare's birthplace in a garden filled
with the flowers mentioned in his plays. |  |
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One of the most complex models is of York Minster to a scale of 1:20. It
took five years and many tons of New Brunswick riverbed rocks to build. |
| There are also over two tons of lead and thousands of
bits of stained glass for the 145 windows. The original is 519ft long and
189ft high and was built in the 15th century and contains two thirds of all
the 14th century glass in England. |  |
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