I was sitting around a table trying to read lips as those around me sang Gaelic songs and we pounded a piece of cloth on the table. No, it wasn’t a dream, I was at a traditional milling frolic in…
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Gaelic proverb: An end will come to everything in the world but music and love will last forever. Next door to the Highland Heights hotel, where I’m staying in Cape Breton, is a living museum of Gaelic language and culture.…
Call it the Slow Food Movement, an Organic Food Restaurant, Eco Hotel or just plan good food, but the Chanterelle Inn in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (Canada) is doing it all. Quietly, passionately and with Cape Breton hospitality. Organic Food Restaurant…
“People get really emotional about their tartans. It’s nice to help them through that and create something that’s uniquely theirs,” Ann Cantwell tells me. I had spent most of the day rambling through the Gaelic College’s Great Hall of the…
After a night of Cape Breton step dancing at the Pipers’ Ceilidh yesterday, I was ready to dig into the Scottish history here and learn how to do a bit of step dancing myself. I made my way from Iona…
My first night in Cape Breton was at the Pipers’ Ceilidh during the Féis An Eilein Gaelic festival in Christmas Island, Nova Scotia. The evening was filled with Cape Breton music and step dancing as the pipers, fiddlers and piano…
