Ferries and buses to Halifax

After a night of attempting to sleep on the ferry and a 7 hour bus ride, we are in Halifax. The extra days in Newfoundland have bitten into our time in Nova Scotia unfortunately. We'd been hoping to stop again on Cape Breton Island to see Werner, but we ran out of time. And we won't be able to make it to Peggy's Cove. But we've seen a lot of stuff off the beaten path, which I think is more important.

And we've gotten some cool interviews in Halifax. We started with the mayor, who spent much of the time poking fun at Neil. I'm no more of a morning person than Neil is, but apparently Neil showed it more that day. But the mayor quite impressed me, he seems pretty cool, has a bunch of editorial cartoons about him spread out under glass on a table in his office. He also picked up some litter while we were outside doing his interview. He was more formal than the mayor of Bonavista, though.

And we also got to interview the guy who started the Propeller brewery, and got to tour the place. Neil's been going on about Propeller since we got to Nova Scotia, and I must admit their London Porter is really, really good. So in a land of Alexander Keith's, we stuck with the better tasting truly Canadian. (Alexander Keith's is actually owned by Labatt, which is owned by Interbrew, a Blegian brewer. Yeah, you try and list as many national Canadian-owned companies as you can.)

Anyway, we stayed with couchsurfers Breagh and Nathan, who let us take over their living room for a couple of nights. They were really cool, but pretty busy at the time. But they pointed us toward a great breakfast place run by an interesting Greek family. Cool place, good food. And a coffee shop we kept meaning to check out, but didn't get the chance.

And we met another couchsurfer, Robert, who gave us a great interview about life, the world and everything. I wish we could have stayed longer, but we had to catch the bus, and in the end we were waiting at the wrong bus stop anyway. Finally after watching buses go by in every direction but ours, we wandered over to another bus, and got enlightened. So we were really late getting back.