RHS'69
Fall Canadian Cruise - Day 4
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Day 4 - Sydney, Nova Scotia
We all travel with a lot of electronic stuff. Cell phones, tablets, laptops, wherever.
You have to charge them so you need to remember to pack the various chargers and cables needed.
Most importantly, you have to understand that cruise ship cabins and hotel rooms are sorely lacking in wall outlets. Most have maybe two - one by the bed and one in the bathroom so you can spend a lot of time swapping things around.
You come back in the afternoon and find half your stuff dead and the cable dance begins between dinner and whatever other plans you had that evening.
Here's the answer. Buy a charger that will allow you to connect 5 or more items at once. They're not expensive, they're fairly small and your problem is fixed.
Put everything in one small bag to keep things from being lost or misplaced.
Juice for your Stuff
Sydney is old. It was founded in 1785 by the British. Its main industries are now customer support call centers and tourism after its coal and steel industries dried up in the 1990's.
Summers are cool and winters are windy, wet and stormy.The average temperature this time of year is between 40-55 degrees.
The largest fiddle in the world is at the Sydney waterfront.
Coming back to port after a walking tour of Sydney.
Here we are in the historical Cosset house, in the kitchen. Our guide talked about how the housewife had to make everything from scratch and by hand.
She made the candles, mend the clothes, kept the fire to the 6 chimney to stay warm in the bitter winter where snow could be 6 to 10 ft deep in January and February. It was a tough life style compared to today.
Their diet consisted mainly of fish, because it was plentiful. They did not eat crabs, lobsters, clams and tomato because they believed they were poisonous.
Mrs. Cosset died at 46 while giving birth to her 13th child.
I made a new friend.
At 50-feet tall this is the biggest fiddle in the world at the front of the harbor.
Sydney is incredibly clean. There's no graffiti to be found anywhere...except here on this theater wall.
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Ocean trash made into a lobster. Plastics, drift wood, ropes, metal cage, lumber, metal pole and wire, etc.
We are pulling away and leaving Sydney. Sydney is a nice town to raise a family. But during winter, it is a good time to go to Hawaii.
Tonight we will be dining at La Cocina, Italian. As our ship heads for Halifax.
Day 5 - Moving on to Halifax, Nova Scotia in pursuit of the elusive turning of the leaves.
Autumn is arriving and on the mainland that means the leaves are starting to change color.
What better time for a cruise to check it out.
RHS'69 Reunion chair Vincent Yim and his wife Wendy are off cruising eastern Canada and U.S. to watch the leaves turn for Autumn.
