hello everyone and welcome to the channel if you happen to be new around here my name is trevor
and this is anna we are the delightful travellers make sure to hit subscribe and click on that bell
to follow along on our adventures and today we're going to be talking about why we love living in
halifax so a lot of you guys will already know that we are frequent travelers however halifax
is our home city we've both lived here for quite a number of years and that's what we come home to
between our travels can't wait to show you around today show you some of our favorite things
lots of great sites and probably some good food coming up too so we're up here on citadel hill
and you can see the amazing views of the city and that iconic clock tower honestly this space is one
of our favorites in the city it's because of all the green space yes there's a national historic
site at the top but we honestly love coming down here and having lunch and a picnic and can i just
say how nice it is to see so many people back in the city the tourists are back again this summer
the last two summers have been super quiet for obvious reasons but also cruise ships have come
back they're here almost every day and it's just so nice to see so many people around speaking
of green spaces we are now in the public gardens which just so happens to be right next to citadel
hill i think one thing we should talk about since it is such a nice day it's mid-august i think it's
about 24 degrees very very comfortable not too hot so let's talk about the weather here in halifax in
nova scotia generally it's pretty moderate the rest of canada can get really really really hot
and humid during the summer and pretty cold and a lot of snow during the winter here it generally in
the summertime it can get hot but it's usually much like this in the winter time it stays not
too bad we don't get too much snow never gets too too cold either so for those of you that follow us
around the world on our adventures you know that we often chase hot weather so given that we're
in canada the weather kind of works for us i mean it's still cold here but it can get really really
hot and there's not a lot of snow and we like that another thing that we love about halifax is
just how walkable it is the downtown itself isn't overly big and the peninsula the entire peninsula
also isn't that huge so you can pretty much walk wherever you want to go but let's take a minute
to talk a little bit more about these gardens such a beautiful green space there are always flowers
blooming throughout the season and then there's a pond in the middle and you might just might
get to see a duck well since it's a really nice day we thought we'd come over to the stillwell
beer garden it's right here on spring garden road and as you can see this space is amazing
the fact that it's right here downtown just makes us absolutely want to come here all
the time we did get a craft beer this is a pilsner and we have some delicious food on the way as well
halifax definitely has no shortage of craft beer and those that follow us regularly already
know that we love our beer especially when it happens to be craft you really could walk around
the city and find loads of beer places pretty much everywhere nice thing about stillwell is that they
have a mix of beers from all over the place pretty quiet right now it's a tuesday afternoon it's not
too busy but on the weekends they can definitely get packed in here they do have some loud music
on them sorry about that hopefully they can hear us soon oh no take a look what i ordered here this
is the iceland dog and it's actually a foot long there's crispy onions on here i think some kind of
like look should i call it icelandic ketchup and a whole bunch of other toppings that i'm
not even sure of this might be the first hot dog that i'm going to take a bite of where i will not
get the whole thing so i'm going to just kind of bite off this piece and then i'll get right
back to you because i want to taste it all at once okay i got the end now bitten off here sausage is
really good itself i'm gonna try to get the whole bite and get some of those onions in the ketchup
oh wow what a messy bite but oh my what a hot dog honestly the bread here the bun itself is toasted
perfectly and i also noticed there's some like little green onions on the top which just kind
of snuck in there but the crispy onions yeah crispy onions to anything and it's always
my favorite this is a tremendous hot dog it's just really really big i've never had an iceland hot
dog before i wonder if that's a thing in iceland or they just kind of name it that so my hot dog
is totally different i went for the orchard dog and honestly i don't even know if i can
remember all the things that are on here there's like a jalapeno cheddar sausage
it's got a mint pickle apple relish that sounds crazy there is some oktoberfest mustard and i
think some sauerkraut this sounds intense and really really good in case you didn't figure it
out they kind of specialize in different hot dogs here although they do have a few other
things on the menu oh my goodness i'm not even sure how to attack this this is so big
oh yeah that is super delicious the actual sausage part of it because it does have that jalapeno
in there is really spicy but it comes afterwards like it was a good like 30 seconds after i stopped
chewing that my mouth got spicy but initially you just kind of taste the pickling-ish pickly-ness
of it is that a word you can taste the pickles on top and then there's a sauerkraut as well so it's
got a little bit of sweetness and then a little bit of like tanginess from the pickles but yeah
this is super yummy we're just finishing up our food here but it's probably a good time to touch
on the halifax food scene so first off if you're wondering about the international cuisine here in
the city we have everything and honestly all of it is so so good and one of our favorite things
is you kind of have like the high-end fancy places we don't go to those too often but you also have
food trucks which is some of our faves as well and then you have hipster places
just like this so there really is something for everyone here before we get any further in the
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us another thing you have to love about halifax is its actual size i mean it's really a pretty small
city it's not overly big it has a small city vibe to it pretty much has everything a big city would
have as well but you get the small community feel where you start to recognize people when
you go out funny enough we actually just ran into a woman that watches us on youtube she moved here
from nepal and started watching our videos before she came here and even she was commenting on how
small the city is that you can run into people like us and other youtubers that she's seen around
right now we are standing in front of one of our favorite buildings in the city now anyone from
halifax will of course recognize this this is the halifax central library the outside
is incredibly impressive but the inside is just as impressive now we're not going in today because
we went in in a fun project that we're filming here in the city called
fun facts we're teamed up with scotia square to produce a whole bunch of videos on downtown
halifax so we go inside of the library in those videos and we do many other things but we're going
to flip to kind of some of those videos now so you can get a taste of what it's all about
we're anna and trevor delightful travelers here with more fun facts in downtown halifax and today
we are talking about the noon canon the firing of the noon canon actually happens every single
day except for christmas day and it started in 1856. if you're downtown you really can't miss it
being from halifax we hear this noon cannon go off
every single day but we've never been this up close and we have a pro tip for you right away
make sure to get here about 15 minutes early because they do close off a rope section if
you want a really close view of the cannon what's better than getting a delicious ice
cream on a beautiful hot summer's day there are so many options for ice cream i went for
a maple walnut waffle cone ice cream tape look how good that looks and i can assure you
it's delicious you can really taste the maple it's nice and sweet and the smell of that waffle cone
is oh so good look at this one it's always one of my faves in the city huh yeah it's not actual
graffiti because it's not right on the building i love that there's like cutouts that they put up
there really really neat so a lot of you probably know that we travel quite often while we're
traveling especially when we're in cities we're often looking for street art like amazing looking
street art we're from halifax and we don't even really notice the street art around but once you
kind of start to find it make it a fun little game like an easter egg hunt and go around the city
trying to find the amazing art like this so if you are coming to downtown halifax and you want to see
more street art you have a few options one is just to walk around you're inevitably going to run into
some two you can find some self-guided tours online and three you can take an actual guided
tour if you want to find out more information we hope you learned a little bit about graffiti in
the downtown core of halifax today we'll see you next time downtown with more fun facts
so we've just come down to the halifax waterfront which is honestly one of our favorite spots in all
of halifax we've touched on it in other videos but it just keeps growing and growing every year it
keeps getting so much better and it looks like they're going to continue to add new things as
the years go on so i think if you keep visiting it every year you're going to discover something
new speaking of something new there are so many international flights that have returned since
you know the pandemic we lost a lot of them when that happened but now they're back and that means
there are flights everywhere we can get over to europe in about four to five hours specifically
the uk from here in halifax on the east coast of canada remember you can also get down to like the
dominican republic which we love and lots of parts of the caribbean in about the same amount of time
but some of the new flights that come back can take us direct to germany to paris and so many
other places in the world we're so excited about that because you know we like to travel so we've
been talking about all the things we love about halifax but of course not everything is perfect
here we need to maybe touch on some of the negatives as well huh yeah if you talk to
anybody you're gonna firstly probably hear about health care if you're coming to canada and coming
moving to nova scotia you're gonna have a really hard time getting a family doctor there's a long
long wait list and even for to get appointments and have like specialist appointments and that
kind of thing there's long long long wait lists or healthcare is certainly far far from perfect
also taxes are really high yeah taxes uh we in nova scotia are taxed at pretty much the highest
or one of the highest in all of canada but we try to i'll say have fun with it no one likes to pay
taxes sometimes we all call it ocean tax we do live by the ocean and that's one of the biggest
perks about nova scotia and halifax in general that's the thing if you come here and you really
love it what you're going to find is that even you know after a year or something you're just going
to get into a certain group that you can't find in other cities it's a little bit more relaxed
it's easier to get in and out of the city so on a friday after work if you work a nine-to-five job
you might just head out of the city and it doesn't take that much time and you can be at the beach
in no time so there is one more thing i want to bring up now if you're not from nova scotia and
you're thinking about moving here you probably should know that nova scotians in general have
a little bit of a difficult time with change i'm a nova scotian as well guys so don't get mad at me
in the comments right away but we do anything new or any time money spent there's always
someone complaining about something if something's happening in sydney the bottom half of nova scotia
is complaining about the north part of nova scotia and vice versa so that always seems to happen but
over time it seems to always work out and change does happen it's just a little bit slow
we travel a lot you guys know this and we see a lot of different places in the world
and if there's anything we can come back to us nova scotia is a very special place
and halifax is just an incredible city it honestly took us kind of traveling around the world
to realize that because when we come home we absolutely love it here well we hope you enjoyed
the tour today of our beloved halifax we had a lot of fun bringing you guys along and talking about
why we love this city but this is going to be our last video in nova scotia again for this
year anyway yeah believe it or not we've been home for a couple of months this is our plan
get back on the road again so next week there's going to be a big announcement but it's going
to be a big video a very important video you're not going to want to miss it lots of important
information coming up yeah so we're so excited you guys the next adventure might just be the biggest
one yet and i can't believe our time here in nova scotia has gone by so quickly where did all the
months go there did i don't even understand the summer literally just flew by so quickly like in a
blink of an eye i know so if you guys got this far in the video thank you for watching it's trevor
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see you soon