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Nova Scotia, From Halifax to Fox Harb’r Resort

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It was a misty day in Halifax . It seemed fitting for this Nova Scotia city with a very English background. My daughter, Sam, and I were staying at the regal Lord Nelson Hotel & Suites for one night before heading to Fox Harb’r Resort on the other end of the island. We woke up early and ate at the hotel’s breakfast buffet, which was filled with fresh fruit, pastries, eggs, and more. From there we took an Uber to Harbour for Ambassatours Deluxe Halifax City Tour. The tour would be by bus and start in front of the Maritime Museum. The ride was comfortable, and the guide was terrific, filling us in on tons of historical facts as we went through the sites. It had been 30 years since I had been to Nova Scotia , and Sam had never been, so we welcomed the information. We only had a short orientation, but I’d love to come back and see the sites in depth.  The city is filled with historical buildings and churches, and the Victorian Public Gardens, but two

Landing in Nova Scotia

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It had been three decades since I stepped foot in Nova Scotia, Canada. It was actually on a cruise with my family I took when I finished college. I had remembered it’s beauty (which I relived many times watching Anne of Greene Gables) and had been excited about the trip ever since the invitation first came across my email from Fox Harb’r Resort. It’s not often I get to travel with my daughter, so I was looking forward to this trip even more than most. She was traveling from New York and I was coming from Champaign. Both trips were fairly long and we decided we’d take an extra day and see Halifax before heading to the resort. I contacted Nova Scotia Tourism and they arranged for our 24 hour stay in Halifax. The air travel didn’t go quite as expected (see this post) and we arrived in Halifax much later than we hoped, but we were both very hungry and anxious to have dinner. We had the driver wait while we quickly dropped our beds at the Lord Nelson Hot