Country Inn & Suites By Carlson Dartmouth

Due to work commitments we end the cruise early. It would have been nice to have ventured into the state of Maine and seen Boston but duty calls. We learn that the horrid problem with the city sewer systems won't be fixed for another 6 months. Pier 21 looks so familiar from our trip here 2 years ago. The ...

... alluded to earlier, the airlines had managed to loose Marlene's luggage somewhere between Perth and New York, so she had nothing except the clothes on her back and a bag of golf clubs. Earlier in the day they had made a run to Wal-Mart to buy some necessaries and by the time we arrived were visiting relatives of Marlene’s somewhere inland. Not trusting Garmi, we jumped on a city bus and went downtown.

Halifax Harbour is a great place if you like boats and ...

... br>Drove out to Musquodoboit Harbour, and its so lovely and quiet out here...just able to really start to chill out after the go go go before.
Just enjoyed the view from the deck....view is right over the lake (well the mouth of a river) and towards the ocean ! :) you can even hear the ocean roar in the evening!

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Woke up to really thick fog! Went for a walk and it's slowly lifting...so thats good! :)
The houses here are quite like NZ...all out of wood ...

... about an hour they let me in but only after asking where I was going, who was I staying with, what my intentions were in the country!!

I met with Paulina and her son and cruised around Halifax for 5 days, The town has a lovely feel to it - bit oldy worldy. People seem to run on a differnet pace here but it definately has a lovely vibe to it. Its quite a clean in the downtown area which is quite small but very attractive ...

... for Bobby to get off of his flight. I suppose there's a part of me that will always be antisocial by choice at times. We stayed at a local hotel and took advantage of every amenity that they had for two days, whether it was free internet, the tour to Peggy's cove (a beautiful town on a cliff-face with a manually operated lighthouse), the pool and the fitness center, an all day reggae festival, and most importantly the nearby ...

... still haven't tried any of the "fruits de mer." Not very adventurous in this department. We're hoping to find a sampler's plate of seafood - so as not to waste too much food or $$ =>. None of us are huge seafood fans, but we feel obliged to at least try some of the fare!) The beach at Basin Head was beautiful. Too bad it was too cold to really enjoy it. (It was sunny, but cold!) The sand there is unique - unlike the ...

... it was not a holiday video, but they were speaking rehearsed lines with very bad acting by the girl....she was solving a mystery and called herself something like "Gam Blam girl" - I couldn't quite catch it through the tears and sobbing. Then I looked the girl up and down - she was hot. Really ****en hot. Like Porno hot. She ****ed up her lines and started again, i sidled a little closer. "Another mystery solved by gang bang girl". They were filming a ****ing porno! I was ...

... throughout. Even though they had slower moments when they weren't doing tricks they were entertaining and it was good enough for families. Then for the grand finale the guy took out the knives he was going to juggle and then the girl explained that she was going to hula hoop while the guy stands on top of her juggling fire. He looked at her funny. Then she said that he might do it with knives. So she gave it to the audience. Do you want knives ...

... minutes. You wake up because it is quiet and you are not moving from side to side. Then there is the morning shower in the very, very small bathroom, enough said. We had breakfast and lunch on the train with period of reading, picture taking, card playing and socializing. We arrived in Halifax twenty-eight hours after boarding in Montreal. George said he could feel the train move beneath his feet for the next day and a half!

Business class, that's where I'm sitting, by the window too! This will all be definately worth it if my bag's at Mirabel. Had 2 seats to myself for a short while but then some guy couldn't handle the smoking section (Wow, how long ago does THAT sound?!?) so he came, no prob. Lotsa room here, quieter too. Fairly secluded as well.
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