Day 32 - Halifax

Thursday June 12, 2008

Today’s going to be a good day, I can tell. I started driving towards Peggy Cove, and when I stopped for gas, a CBC camera guy asked if he could use shots of my car for a story on stealing gas. Being on vacation and having nothing better to do, I told him to go nuts. Later on, I saw the news clip, you can see me filling up my tank, but they didn’t keep the part where I paid for it. So... I’d just like to say I paid for my gas that day, honest! (Even though it was something ridiculous like 1.44)

I made a quick pit stop at Superstore (except here they’re called The Atlantic Superstore). A young lady honked at me as I was walking by. I couldn’t tell if she meant me so I started walking over. I guess she had accidentally honked and was too embarrassed (or busy laughing) to wave me off =-). I thought ahead and bought some postcards to mail from the lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove, since those would probably be expensive there.

It turns out that the postcards were WAY cheaper at Peggy’s Cove (that’s a first), $1 vs $0.25. On top of that, they closed the post office and moved it down to the building next door. D’oh! The cove itself if gorgeous, there’s no way to describe it otherwise. I can see why it’s Canada’s most photographed place. I drove back to Halifax and waited 15 minutes for road construction. I think they’ve simultaneously torn up EVERY road in Nova Scotia over the past 2 days (and I swear this one was whole when I drove the opposite way).



Into Halifax and to the Keith’s Brewery. The neat part about this brewery tour is that it was done entirely in character (like, 1800’s brewery) and it had a lot of character to it. Even though I’m not a huge Keith’s fan, I enjoyed it alot. Besides, you can’t go wrong with a city that elects their brew master as mayor! I think it’s been a really long time since I drank though, because the two sampler beers were enough to get me really tipsy.

I had a delicious haddock and scallop dinner at the Economy Shoe Store Cafe (neat place). It was good, but the beer was pretty pricey ($7.50 for a pint of locally brewed Garrison Raspberry Beer). Not much else to say... I plotted my plan of attack for the next few days and called it a night.


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