KM driven: 541
Steps taken: 9 040. I’ll walk around the room later to push it over 10K.
We didn’t get all our steps in today because it was HOT! All the way up to 29°C with the humidex. It was one of those days where we were just searching for shade… needless to say there was no hiking today!
We left Sydney before sunrise in order to get to Halifax as early as possible. Stop 1 was lunch in Peggy’s Cove, well actually at a place a little up the road that my guidebook says is one of the best seafood restaurants in the region (5km away). I tried a Lobster Roll for the first time ever and it was really good!
And what adorable salt and pepper shakers!
Next was the Swissair 111 Memorial.
And then the Lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove OVERRUN with tourists!!
Have you ever driven around Halifax? OMG are the roads ever confusing!!! this whole trip we made one or two easily correctable wrong turns, but Halifax is nuts. CRAZYNESS! If there was a wrong turn to be made anywhere, we made it. When we finally made it to the downtown area, we parked the car and explored the city on food… well… the shady parts anyway! There is construction EVERYWHERE but its not road works like in Montreal to that’s a nice change. Buildings are all being fixed or renovated or built – it felt to me like they were rebuilding following a natural disaster or something. Halifax reminds me a lot of Boston and I am not sure why yet.
We meandered around the Waterfront Boardwalk,
Stopped for a cool drink on a shaded patio,
Then continued our stroll around town.
We said we’d have supper around 6ish, but by 5 we were so hot and so fed up we decided to eat early. Ironically, once of the things I wanted to see in Halifax was John Snow’s mortuary for it’s link to the Titanic Tragedy (his mortuary interred many of the victims) but then I learned it had been turned into a restaurant and there was nothing left of historical significance. Well, guess what: The resto we just happened to pick for dinner turned out to be that very one!
The food was unbelievably good, best meal of the trip by a mile! I even had dessert!! I never usually do since I don’t have a sweet tooth and therefore I am rarely ever tempted but the lemon tart sounded perfect… and it WAS! I can easily recommend this place to anyone; it was out of this world.
After supper, the plan was to visit the Fairview Lawn Cemetery were many Titanic victims are buried including the evocative grave of a certain “J Dawson”. Sadly, we made a bunch or wrong turns again so I suggested we forget it and concentrate on finding (and checking in to) our hotel since I didn’t want to drive around searching for it in the dark. THANK GOD we did that because we made I think at least 3 wrong turns trying to get to it! We’ll try the cemetery again tomorrow morning.
We have the entire day in Halifax tomorrow, I’m looking forward to it… despite the fact it will be another hot and sticky one!
Good night!
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