and it is time once again for weekend drives in the country. We did this a bit last year and really enjoyed it. Highlights from last summer: seeing the big Pysanka (Ukrainian Easter Egg) at Vegreville,
and of course the giant kielbasa sausage at Mundare. Mundare is also the home of the amazingly beautiful hidden gem, the Basilian Fathers' Museum of Ukrainian Religious and Cultural Heritage. Awesome!
This year we began our peregrinations with a drive down highway 21 to Camrose - a very nice town with a couple of lovely restored Victorian homes visible on the main drag. We stopped at O'Shea's Pub for a good lunch, and then headed to Viking. Viking is about an hour east of Camrose, and downtown Viking was completely silent on a Sunday afternoon. Only the Cold Beer store was open. Otherwise main street was deserted. Viking did, however, welcome us to their troll park.
Velkommen to Viking Troll Park!
This park features a large stone troll-ish looking thing, as well as a sword-brandishing Viking cut-out. Excellent!! Also attractive was this Viking long-boat.
The summer drive may not be as cosmopolitan or adventurous as our European holiday, but there is something about small-town tourism that really calls to us. This is a great part of the world and we are going to document some of the reasons why.
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