You don’t drive the Trans-Labrador Highway for anything particular to see on the way. You drive it because it’s there. Because you can. Because there is still a teeny sense of adventure to doing it. Not so much to see what’s there, but rather what’s not there. From disembarking the Newfoundland ferry it’s over 1,700km of remote and desolate road all the way across Labrador into Quebec and back to civilisation at the St Lawrence Seaway coast. But that’s not to say there isn’t anything to see at all. There is some fabulous scenery and a few spots worthy of distraction along the way.

What can we say about Newfoundland? It has a gob-smacking view around every corner. The people are very friendly. And it’s windy. Very windy. If you overland Newfoundland in the right season, you’ll (allegedly) see lots of icebergs, puffins and whales. But even without those, it’s extraordinarily scenic. For us, overland Newfoundland involved reaching a milestone at a lighthouse, finding an old aircraft wreck, getting very stuck in some mud, running from a hurricane, visiting the port of Dildo (well you’ve just got to haven’t you?) and taking at least a million photos of the Island. And did we mention it’s windy?

‘New Scotland’. Spend a bit of time overlanding Nova Scotia and it’s not hard to see why the early settlers gave it the name. The cracking coastal scenery bears more than a passing resemblance to its Scottish namesake. But we didn’t find just great scenery in Nova Scotia… we found a bit of education too. Things we never learned at school (or maybe we did but have long forgotten). Anyone on a ‘world-schooling’ trip with kids wanting a lot of great scenery and a bit of beach camping on the side, then overlanding Nova Scotia is your thing!