Going to Canuckistan!
Saturday, July 21st, 2007 - 8:46pm
...aka Razor's Road Trip II: Electric Boogaloo.
My wife and I are heading to the Great White North for our slightly-belated honeymoon and we're open to suggestions. We'll be spending most of this coming week in Nova Scotia, with stops in NB on the way in and out. Anyone live in the area and want to get us sloshed? Maybe you know somewhere we should go while we're up that way? (I hear absinthe is legal up yonder; I've always wondered if the hype was true.)
If I didn't drink, Crom would laugh and cast me out of Valhalla when I die. Peer pressure I can handle, but not when it comes from Crom. -Lobo
Absinsthe hype: Not true.
You are a little too far east for me to hang out with you guys, but have fun. Nova Scotia's beautiful!
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I wouldn't call nova scotia the great white north.
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I wouldn't call anything but Nunavut the Great White North. Also, I seriously dare you to use the term Canuckistan while up here.
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Too far east for me as well. If you ever come somewhere close to Toronto send the call out again. Nova Scotia and the east coast are wonderful. Have fun!
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Absinthe... totally true. Looks like it's dependent on where you go though. The BCLCB stocks it... I believe it's a bit weaker than the average 'drive you bat-sh*t insane' brand they make in eastern Europe.
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Sorry, we we just there at the beginning of the month. You should just about be on tme for Buskerfest in Halifax, though.
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No idea where Nova Scotia is, mostly cuz im in the US at the moment
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You need to go back and study all the names of the norther states don't you.
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We just got back today from a honeymoon in Montreal, Canuckistan can be a lot of fun!
If you happen to run across a place called 'Cora's' (its a chain breakfast place) I highly recommend it; the wife and I were very sad to not discover the place until our second to last day up there.
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Cora's is awesome. It's pretty expensive for breakfast but it is one of the best breakfasts you'll ever eat.
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There's one in Halifax and another in Fredericton for sure, don't know if there's any in Moncton though. And go during the week, or you'll be in line for an hour.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.) - Roedy Green
I've never had a good experience at Cora's. I keep hearing how it's so good but every time I go there's a problem. Poor service, cold food, bland food, and extremely expensive.
If I was to sum up their breakfast in a colour, the colour would be grey.
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Cora's can be hit or miss. I've had one of the most bland breakfasts ever there, as well as one of the best breakfasts I ever eaten.
There is a Cora's on highway 20 just east of the Island of Montreal that I highly recommend. It doesn't look like much from the road, but it has excellent food, and a nice view of the St. Lawrence river.
Cora's is part of my weekly Sunday ritual. Outstanding casual-French menu.
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I am from Halifax though I am currently studying/working in Edmonton.
I went back for a week a little while ago and had a great time!
Something you might want to see
-The Buskerfest in the summer is really good
-The tall ships (sailing ships) come by in the summer too not sure when
-Propeller Brewery on Gottegen Street - Particularly the Root Beer
-Peggy's Cove(don't buy food there, its a rip off but beautiful)
-Victoria Park (in Truro)
-Chicken Burger Restaurant in Bedford
-The parks in Halifax got hurt really bad by the hurricane a few years ago unless you have lots of time go elsewhere or really like old forts.
-Halifax Citadel <-- its a fort we built a long time ago to defend against the yanks! Never had to use it.
-Shows by Neptune Theater or Shakespeare by the sea.
Have fun! I wish I could go back.
Also, the pizza in Halifax is really good if you don't go to a chain. Go to an independent place.
Of course, it didn't occur to me that I might not have intertubes access until I got back. We did catch the first half of this thread and checked out Cora's in Saint John; my darling wife enjoyed it immensely, but I wasn't terribly impressed. I didn't realize that crepes != pancakes, for starters.
Any rate, lovely country you've got up there! I think next time we come up yonder, we'll have to spend a week or so out on Cape Breton. We're both a little bummed that our trip didn't lead us up there this time. Oh, but first, you guys seriously need to learn how temperature works: 30° is not summer weather; it's below freezing. Bloody useless scale.
If I didn't drink, Crom would laugh and cast me out of Valhalla when I die. Peer pressure I can handle, but not when it comes from Crom. -Lobo
This coming from a guy who thinks water boils at 212 degrees
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.) - Roedy Green
No kidding. Lets take a scale based on how salt water freezes not, say, pure water
It's ok though. He lives in a country where their units of measure were based on the length of a kings digits. It really shouldn't surprise us that they'd have something equally... quaint... for measuring temperature
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Bah. They're just doing a lousy job of debasing their currency as well as we do. Slackers.
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LobsterMobster wrote:
While the absinthe here in Canada is pretty tame, there is a trick if you are feeling like indulging in some serious green fairy fun.
Suprisingly a lot of supplement and natural health stores stock wormwood in its dried form (I even found it in a craft store once!!!), at least here in Edmonton. So just crack that bottle of absinthe, toss some herb in there, seal it up and let it sit in the sun for a few days, and tada! death in a bottle!
*note - I am not responsible if you put too much in and jump off a bridge calling yourself a golden god. Please consume in moderation.
This talk about Absinthe interested me, so I did a bit of reading. It looks to me as though there is a lot of disagreement as to whether wormwood or thujone (the supposed psychoactive chemical in wormwood) has any hallucinogenic or psychoactive properties. Certainly some of the Absinthe vendor websites make the claim, but other sites including wikipedia seem to debunk the idea.
I have never tried Absinthe, I was just curious because it's a word I've read in a lot of different places and I wondered what it was. I guess from context I always assumed it was just another liqueur.
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Naw, I've always hated Imperial measurements. They make no sense!
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That's the point. It's the final line of defense against an invading force. They get so confused by our silly units of measurement that they run crying home to mama.
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They made enough sense to you before you rebelled from your imperial oppressors.
Oh wait, did that ever happen?
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According to their website, Cora's only serves actual pancakes in one city (I think it was Ottawa, but could be wrong).
And the sudden worth of funny money was quite sad, we ended up not even converting. If only prices had gone down to coincide with the disparity in value of the money.
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Speaking of relics of our formerly mutual oppression, how's that outdated spelling going for you? Do you feel silly when talking about colours and theatre centres?
...Eh?
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