Victoria and the fisherman

As this entry is being written, we are sitting in an ocean front beach cottage overlooking the Atlantic sea. We have now reached Halifax and for the past week, we have been renting this little place close to Peggy's Cove outside Halifax. It is absolutely beautiful, even during winter storms in November/December (!) and a perfect way to end our journey across this continent. Three months ago we were looking out over the Pacific ocean, and now we are looking at the Atlantic sea.

Waves!

When we arrived in Halifax we stayed a couple of nights downtown to get ourselves sorted out. Since we will be leaving for Europe from here, there are a few things we needed to arrange before we get on that plane. The most important thing was the car. The 18 year old Toyota Landcruiser has been our home and our transportation for the past three months. It has taken us up north and across the country so we both had a special attachment to this veichle. We had discussed different options which included storing it in Halifax, shipping it back to Vancouver, shipping it to Europe etc. etc. In the end, and after all, we did decide to sell it to spare ourselves the headache of arranging for shipping and/or storage so we spent a few days advertising it online and in the news paper. It turned out to be a very popular car and we ended up selling it to the first guy who came to take a look. A huge relief but it was with certain sadness we saw the Landcruiser go...

The next administrative task on hand was to decide what to do with everything we had brought with us but couldn't take with us across to Europe. We had brought our camping gear also on this part of the trip but ended up not camping a single night, so somehow we needed to ship that gear back to Vancouver. A friend in Vancouver was kind enough to agree to recieving and storing our stuff until we come back, so a trip to the post office and three boxes later we are now down to the things that we will be bringing with us on the plane tomorrow!

The oceanside cottage we found is perfect for the last few days here. We have our own kitchen and the windows overlook St. Margret's Bay and famous Peggy's cove is only 3 kilometers up the road. We found the local fish market and have been feasting on lobster a couple of times! We've also bought some smoked mackerel which was delicious!

The little house we rented outside Peggy's Cove

Lighthouse in Peggy's Cove

Harbour in Peggy's Cove

A couple of day trips have taken us back into Halifax where we visited the Citadel and the Historic Properties. The day we went to the Citadel was the Christmas market with child friendly activities so we ended up in a crowd of families with kids and even saw Santa!!! Robert got told off by an employee for leaning too far over the side of the citadel. We thought that was quite funny; 44 year old gets yelled like a kid doing something bad!

One day we drove out to Mahone Bay and Lunenburg which are cute old communities along the south shore. Mahone Bay also had their annual Christmas market so we got into the holiday spirits by jingle bells and holiday decorations.

Colourful houses in Lunenburg

Robert and the green house

Tomorrow we are off to Iceland for a week and then on to Sweden. Iceland sounds very 'cool' and we are quite excited about the next part of our trip. It feels a little strange that this part of the trip is over but we have lots more to look forward to!

written by  Victoria & Robert on December 1, 2009 from Halifax, Canada
from the travel blog: Across Canada
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I wish you a real nice time on Iceland and welcome to Sweden. We really are looking forward to see you.
Big hugs
Maud

written by  Maud Naess on December 1, 2009

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