What if you only had 36 hours to visit Halifax? With 'so much to sea', as the tourism folks like to say, how would you maximize your time? Much would depend on your interest, however there are some places that appeal to most of us.
One American visitor, writer Tatiana Boncompagni describes her whirlwind 'escape to Halifax' in the New York Times.
Tatiana celebrated her Friday evening arrival with 'A Pint and a Pirate Joke' followed by a late night dinner at the Shoe Shop.
She moved blithely through a breakneck weekend that included visiting the Farmer's Market, shopping for antiques, sailing Halifax Harbour and then viewing in from the Citadel, catching a theatrical production and gazing on a deck chair from the Titanic. She also ate lots.
Starting with Friday night's lobster flambe at the Economy, Tatiana enjoyed a "killer brunch" (Janes on the Commons) to a 'succulent rack of lamb' (Seventh Heaven) to one more feed of lobster (Salty's) on the waterfront, plus a few I forgot. This woman sampled some of Halifax's best eateries. She found good food at reasonable prices.
Tatiana, a writer for the New York Times makes a mad rush through Halifax (on a paid for cruise, no doubt), but it all sounds so fascinating and delicious, especially since I haven't had breakfast yet.
There really is so much to sea, but you get the idea. You can actually see Halifax in 36 hours -- but -- why would you want to unless you were only here for a expenses paid conference and played hookey?
I was pleased to find this NYTimes 24 hour tourism article, because as we who live here know, one taste of Halifax and she'll pull you back for more. Tatiana didn't dare venture out to the coast for a '72 Hours in Nova Scotia" escape. She would probably still be here.
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3 comments:
My name is William Clarke and I'm the photographer who shot that assignment. I'd like to share a 'behind the scenes' tale with your readers. At that time, I was on the staff at The Daily News and had been shooting assignments for the Times since 2002. Every location I went to, I made a point of stating I was NOT from New York, even handing out Daily News business cards.
In any event, shortly after the feature went to press, it was picked up by the Herald and CTV's Liz Rigney did a news story about it. We have met numerous times of course, and when I heard about the TV piece, I emailed her about it.
"Bill!" she says. "You're famous!" And then she told me everybody she interviewed said they had also been visited by a photographer from New York. I told her that was a stretch on their parts because I never identified myself as being from the Empire State.
Afterwards, I told Times travel editor John Forbes about the local coverage. His comment? "We do all of that work just to end up as wrapper for someone else."
Ha ha. But it was an intense shoot. And you should see the photos that DIDN'T run!!
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Bill: Thank you for your 'production notes' on the 36 Hours piece. Interesting slant. Feel free to post those 'unpublished photos'!
Best,
Gail
Highway 7 Online
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