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Georgia to Halifax<\/h2>\n
Our latest adventure allowed us to take in two more provinces of Canada, leaving only Alberta and Newfoundland on the list of those which Tim has not visited as of yet. Flying into Halifax, provincial capital of Nova Scotia, with Delta is now a year-round option, but I can’t really imagine wanting to be there in the winter. Flying in from Atlanta requires a stopover in La Guardia, which is never really a treat. Delta terminals at JFK are not too bad, but La Guardia is over booked and heavily impacted with more and more flights being scheduled. Put it this way: the flight time is known to be slightly over an hour from La Guardia to Halifax ONCE you are in the air, but they block the flight at slightly over two hours to account for the time you will spend on the tarmac waiting to take off from La Guardia. The neat trick here is that once the aircraft leaves the “gate” (for Halifax from La Guardia this means the spot against the fence that the bus drove you out to) your flight is departed and technically on-time even if you haven’t moved. Once that door closes, you have left.<\/p>\n
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Halifax<\/h2>\n
The crowds and renovation-in-process Sky Club aside, the flights themselves were uneventful. Halifax airport is not really near Halifax, so one is in for a bit of a slog of a good 30+ minutes to get to anything at all resembling civilization. As far as cities go, I would say not to expect too much from Halifax itself. You don’t fly there to see the city, unless you have business I suppose, rather you fly there as a gateway to the province itself. The city has limited attractions, primarily, if not exclusively, the Citadel, an old British fort that has had a largely peaceful history. If you are in the city it is worth a visit but I wouldn’t fly in just for the sake of seeing it by itself. Atlantic Canada, Halifax included, has been heavily battered by economic disasters such as the collapse of coal mining and the collapse of the cod fishing industry. Once those two industries tanked there just wasn’t much on anymore. As a result, the city has a bi-polar personality of the older group of citizens who worked when there was work and have retired and the younger group of residents who are students at one of the several universities in the city. Most everyone else has left for the western parts of Canada where work exists. The city isn’t particularly well maintained but that shouldn’t matter too terribly much because you are here to see Nova Scotia outside of the city.<\/p>\n