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JOCELYNE LLOYD: Experiencing P.E.I. like a tourist

We recently had the pleasure of joining family and friends for a week at a cottage rental in Prince Edward Island, and it reaffirmed to me there is something unique about being a tourist in your own province.

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Some in our party were visiting from Toronto and a couple had only been here once before. To view their must-do list was eye-opening, as was overhearing the advice given to them by other travellers as we all visited various tourist attractions.

As far as I know, you can get ice cream anywhere in Canada, but for whatever reason stopping by ice cream stands on the daily has become a tradition for our out-of-town visitors.

Cows, for one, has done a terrific job of marketing itself across the country as the the world’s best ice cream, meaning tourists don’t think they can unlock the “visited P.E.I.” badge without stopping by for some Wowie Cowie. Never mind that the creamery has locations in many of the other Canadian provinces, unless it is consumed in the salty sea air of a P.E.I. summer, it apparently doesn’t count.

I have a similar attitude to Cows as my friend who took us to the Empire State Building when we visited her in Manhattan a number of years ago — I can see the attraction and I’m game to go, but as a local I feel obligated to warn others the price and the length of the queue may not be worth it to them. Those caveats did........

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