Halifax! It’s been a long
time coming. And, in the nature of life, it didn’t quite work out as I would
have preferred; but there you go, you have to roll with the punches.
Halifax has loomed
unexpectedly large for me simply because I kept having Titanic connections:
coming across a travelling expedition, complete with iceberg, in Copenhagen;
visiting Cork harbour in Ireland; and others that would make this claim stronger except that I can’t recall them at the moment
thanks to a rather large port I’ve just seen off, from the private cabinet in
our suite here on Silversea’s Silver Whisper (on arrival, your butler asks for
your preferences in stocking the minibar – which is INCLUDED). Anyway, Halifax
in Nova Scotia is the nearest port to the sinking, and lots of boats went out
from here to rescue survivors, but of course came back with only bodies.
I didn’t get to the
cemeteries that I’ve written about several times; but I did visit the Maritime
Museum, which is very good, and which has a Titanic section that includes a new
concept for me: wreckwood, that is, items made from wood salvaged from the ship.
It seemed a bit trivial to make a rolling pin and a backgammon board from bits
of the Titanic, but who am I to judge?
There was [all together
now] not enough time to give the museum its due because I was booked on a coach
tour out to Peggy’s Cove an hour’s drive away, sucked in because of another
small obsession, with lighthouses.
Although the weather deteriorated into rain,
it was still pretty and striking, and I was glad that I’d gone. The bare
granite rocks where the lighthouse stands were initially swarming with coachloads of
tourists, but the rain drove them off in the end, and I was able to enjoy it
uncluttered. It was all very - you know, that book, by that writer, woman, I think there was a movie with thingummy, so well known, Usual Suspects, you know. Damn that ruby port!
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The shipping news? Did I guess it?
Yes! Well done. I remember it all now - The Shipping News, Annie Proulx, Kevin Spacey. But you beat me to it.
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