The Anne of Green Gables house is the stuff of dreams and has been known to reduce tourists to tears.
Tourists on this very spot have fallen to their knees and cried with joy. I’m standing under a cherry tree on the lush lawn of a green-shuttered farmhouse known as the home of Anne of Green Gables.
“It’s a lifelong goal for many people,” she says. “It’s hard to believe somewhere so beautiful exists. Then people get here and it’s more special than they imagined.” Montgomery’s personal letters, manuscripts and typewriter are displayed in the visitors’ centre alongside scores of her books in more than 30 languages. A ‘card garden’ shows comments from visitors and one, in childish scrawl, says: “Anne, you are the only friend I have.”
But even if I’d never read the book, I’d still have found the island the most beautiful part of the world I’ve ever seen. Rich farmland and an abundance of seafood mean Prince Edward Island is foodie heaven. Through the porthole in Lobster Barn restaurant, a stone’s throw from Island Chocolates, I watched fishermen come to shore with their daily catch and minutes later our table was served the freshest oysters.
But after joining the long queue snaking from Cow’s then devouring scoops of signature flavours Mowie Cowie and Gooey Mooey from their own-recipe waffle cone, I mentally apologised for doubting him.
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