In town you’ll find fun spots such as The Church Brewing Company and the Annapolis Cider Company, who create their tipples from apples plucked from local orchards. This university town in the Annapolis Valley on the northern side of Nova Scotia has an offbeat vibe. Halifax is also your likely arrival point in Nova Scotia as it has both a cruise ship terminal and Halifax Stanfield International Airport making it an easy place for your first night or two. The city also has the most bars per person in the whole of Canada, making it a great place to sample locally-made beers and wines.Īcorn Art Photography/Tourism Nova Scotia Here you’ll find a 2.5-mile boardwalk with lively restaurants, boutiques and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, showcasing artefacts from the Titanic. With a population of around 400,000, Halifax is Atlantic Canada’s biggest city, but it has maintained a charming feel along the streets that slope towards the waterfront. Halifax’s most impressive feature is its natural harbour – in size it's second only to Sydney, Australia, as the world’s largest that remains unfrozen year-round. And nothing's more likely to make you feel like an adopted Nova Scotian than leisurely motoring along with a soundtrack of C100 FM blasting out on your hire car’s radio, while en route to find your third lobster-based meal of the day. It’s (almost) impossible to get lost too, as the province's roads largely either follow the coast or cross from shore to shore. Read more: 50 photos that will make you fall in love with Canada Taking a mini-road trip – doable in four to five days – means you can get around many of the region’s highlights and enjoy hospitality in stunning hotels from sleek modern apartments to quaint inns. Yet Canada’s second smallest province is packed with surprises beyond the obvious, not least its highly regarded wineries. It’s certainly not what I was expecting from Nova Scotia, a region more well-known for reds and whites of a different kind – those of stripy lighthouses in clock-stopped coastal villages.
If it wasn’t for the watery views of the Minas Basin below, the gently sloping vineyard with row after row of vines could easily be mistaken for Tuscany.
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