To celebrate a special occasion, my wife and I bought a package at The Haliburton in Halifax. It’s a lovely boutique hotel in downtown Halifax with one of the better restaurants in the city. Our package included a night stay, supper, parking and a continental breakfast.
It’s a very different type of hotel since [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Halifax'
The Haliburton
May 24th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Halifax
Halifamous
February 6th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Halifax
A Grooveshark list of my favourite Halifamous music. I’ve highlighted most of these in previous posts, but I wanted to put them all together for an expat friend.
Tags: music
Best House!
November 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Halifax
We always have a decent turnout for Halloween, somewhere around 150 trick-or-treaters. Last year, we decided to make a change though. We had always given out the regular stuff that most people give, small chocolates, cheezees (sp?), chips, etc… Some new health issues came to light for us and we started shifting [...]
Tags: Haloween
Joel Plaskett Concert – Music From The East Coast
June 4th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Halifax
We went to a Joel Plaskett concert at the Rebecca Cohn auditorium this past weekend and it was awesome!
It was his last date on his tour supporting the new album, three. It’s way mellower than the songs of his that I normally like, but it’s still pretty cool. We actually bought the album [...]
Steamy’s Restaurant
May 30th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Halifax
We dropped into Steamy’s yesterday to give it a shot. Steamy’s is a new-ish restaurant on Quinpool road in Halifax. There’s been a bit of an influx of new restaurants there so my wife wants to check them out to see what their deal is.
So the food at Steamy’s is meant to give [...]
Tags: restaurant
Spring In Halifax
April 11th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Halifax
A couple of weeks ago I was out and about and came across a true sign of spring. The shopping carts are starting to bloom from the snow banks
For those less familiar with the wonders of a snowy winter, these acumulate after plowing the parking lots repeatedly. Sometimes the [...]
Tags: snow