Packed up this morning to head over to Deer Lake airport to yep, catch another plane – and another prop plane at that. We still can’t get any coverage for mobile phones or internet even at the airport which is kind of nice but kind of frustrating because we know when we get to Halifax we have to update the blog and respond to a tonne of emails. It’s amazing how much you take technology for granted until you don’t have it!!
So onto the prop plane (another Dash-8) for the world’s most expensive flight and we were off to Halifax in the province of Nova Scotia. Why Halifax? No idea really. It looked good and was on the way to Quebec City and Montreal which will be our final destination before heading to either Sudbury, Vancouver or Tent City (otherwise known as North Saskatchewan). So after a fairly quick flight we arrived. We organized our shuttle into town which was leaving in 5 minutes after we arrived to see it drive off full. Four of us missed the bus and the lady kindly provided us with a limo into town at the same cost. Now when I say limo, its not that kind of limo (although that’s what they call them here), it’s a luxury car with drinks, mags, leather seats but perhaps most importantly free chocolate provided. The windows were black so no one could see us, we felt very famous and did the queen wave out the window! The driver must of thought “what do we have here” with two Aussies with enormous backpacks climbing into his car giggling like children!
About a half an hour later we turned up to our lovely old Victorian Bed and Breakfast with yes, wifi!!! The B&B is on South Park street although alas no Cartman or Kenny!! We updated the blog (yes you can stop reminding us we are behind) and caught up on our email and enjoyed the pleasant view of the cemetery from our window. Our email appears to be working again so you may find some of the them delivered that we wrote almost a week ago.
We headed out after this with one thing in mind – where is the best local pub? The lady at the counter provided directions and didn’t let us down. About a 20 minute walk to the waterfront and into an underground pub and we were at the Lower Deck, a maritime kind of pub. Anyway, the local beer and wine were good and we met some interesting characters such as Jeff, the loud American who told the whole pub his view on American politics and refused to remove his sunglasses although it was dark. He was brash and from Tennessee and full of crap, but he was amusing none the less. We decided that it was probably time to head home after sitting in the pub for four hours. Dan tried three different types of Keiths and two types of Oland and then went back to Keith's in his quest to drink Canada dry. So the only thing we have seen in Halifax so far is the pub (oops!!). We had an awesome time and have a list of locals to try out over the next few days.
So onto the prop plane (another Dash-8) for the world’s most expensive flight and we were off to Halifax in the province of Nova Scotia. Why Halifax? No idea really. It looked good and was on the way to Quebec City and Montreal which will be our final destination before heading to either Sudbury, Vancouver or Tent City (otherwise known as North Saskatchewan). So after a fairly quick flight we arrived. We organized our shuttle into town which was leaving in 5 minutes after we arrived to see it drive off full. Four of us missed the bus and the lady kindly provided us with a limo into town at the same cost. Now when I say limo, its not that kind of limo (although that’s what they call them here), it’s a luxury car with drinks, mags, leather seats but perhaps most importantly free chocolate provided. The windows were black so no one could see us, we felt very famous and did the queen wave out the window! The driver must of thought “what do we have here” with two Aussies with enormous backpacks climbing into his car giggling like children!
About a half an hour later we turned up to our lovely old Victorian Bed and Breakfast with yes, wifi!!! The B&B is on South Park street although alas no Cartman or Kenny!! We updated the blog (yes you can stop reminding us we are behind) and caught up on our email and enjoyed the pleasant view of the cemetery from our window. Our email appears to be working again so you may find some of the them delivered that we wrote almost a week ago.We headed out after this with one thing in mind – where is the best local pub? The lady at the counter provided directions and didn’t let us down. About a 20 minute walk to the waterfront and into an underground pub and we were at the Lower Deck, a maritime kind of pub. Anyway, the local beer and wine were good and we met some interesting characters such as Jeff, the loud American who told the whole pub his view on American politics and refused to remove his sunglasses although it was dark. He was brash and from Tennessee and full of crap, but he was amusing none the less. We decided that it was probably time to head home after sitting in the pub for four hours. Dan tried three different types of Keiths and two types of Oland and then went back to Keith's in his quest to drink Canada dry. So the only thing we have seen in Halifax so far is the pub (oops!!). We had an awesome time and have a list of locals to try out over the next few days.
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Tan (picture below) seems to be showing off her butternuts.
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