One evening we walked up Citadel Hill...
...a steep walk up from the harbor front where we were staying.
The citadel was closed - it closes at 5pm - but we did enjoy the view of the city.
We took a different route returning to our hotel.
Our new route took us past a number of old churches. I always wonder who built them and when.
Which survived the 1917 Halifax explosion, when much of the downtown had been destroyed?
These magnificent structures remind me that - before our age of machines - skilled builders and craftsmen were able to make buildings that endured longer than ours seem to.
Another fun tour we took was through parts of the original Alexander Keith brewery, now a museum...
The tour is really a play, an enactment that takes you "back in time" more than a hundred years, as you follow three of Alexander Keith's "workers" into the old pub and through a tunnel the brewer had built between his brewery and his home (so that he could keep an eye on things).
There were opportunities for beer sampling.
And lots of reminders of what life must have been like in Halifax several hundred years ago.
Early on in our stay in Halifax, we sampled Cow's ice cream (made in Prince Edward Island)... and as many other brands as we could find!
The weather was cooler than Ottawa - but we had a wonderful time!
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