Thursday evening, Friday

Thursday evening
We left Bar Harbor 3.00pm; the wind was freezing cold by then. As we sailed out, the seas got quite choppy and the wind noisier, and we were still rocking and rolling at bedtime. Graham wasn't well when we got back from the excursion and spent most of the afternoon sleeping or resting; he was well enough to go to dinner though and was fine after that. We've been given a complimentary dinner in the posh restaurant, which we're looking forward to next week.

Friday, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada)
Sadly, they've cancelled the excursion we had booked in this port – sea kayaking; however, we've booked the same type of activity in Saguenay, Quebec next week on Wednesday, so we'll see whether that works. We were greeted on the pier this morning with a Scottish pipe band!

Well, here we are in downtown Halifax, quite a town compared with the little places we've stopped in the last two ports; we actually found a Starbucks! Graham at first wanted to head for Tim Horton's (as everyone knows, that's where Canadians get their caffeine) but we discovered they only do filter coffee, so we kept searching and found this Starbucks; if you buy a coffee card (costs nothing) you get 2 hours of free wireless access.

It's freezing here but we're now in the land of “go-through-the-double-doors-and-rip-your-clothes-off”! Before you get shocked, that's my description of going from the freezing outside to the overly hot inside. The CBD goes for at least 4 blocks!