Scottish honeymooners prize trip to Digby

There’s a married feel now in Digby’s connection to Scotland—or at least the honeymoon continues.

In October 2006, a delegation from the Digby Area Board of Trade visited Edinburgh and Glasgow to encourage investment and tourism between old and New Scotland.

Earlier this year, MP Gordon Banks, a Scot who sits in Parliament in London, visited Digby and Weymouth, and aided a local company’s efforts to expand into UK markets.

Now two Scottish newlyweds will visit Digby—Canada’s ‘most romantic town’—next May for a weeklong honeymoon, the prize in a contest organized in conjunction with Central FM, one of Scotland's top radio stations.

The ‘most romantic town’ title was bestowed in the mid-1990s by a national magazine that invited reader nominations and submissions.

The honeymoon prize includes return flights from Glasgow to Halifax, seven days accommodation in Summers Country Inn in Digby and meals in the Captain’s Cabin restaurant. There is also a second week with accommodations provided by Old Orchard Inn and Blomidon Inn at Wolfville, an arrangement being handled by Destination South West Nova Scotia.

Ian Russell, a transplanted Scot who moved to Digby four years ago, has been instrumental in spreading the word about Digby, aiding in both the Digby trade delegation and a later one from Kings County in June.

“During our mission, one of the tasks we had was to get people talking about Nova Scotia and educating Scots that we are only five and a half hours away from Glasgow,” said Russell.

With honeymooners Colleen Brisbane and Malcolm MacGregor arriving May 4 in Nova Scotia, Russell is now trying to organize a similar prize for newlywed Nova Scotians to visit Scotland.