Tuesday, July 19, 2016, New Harris, NS
Day 52

The day before our ferry, so we headed into North Sydney, about 20 minutes away to scout it out. We go to the tourist info center which surprisingly has 4 employees to just us 2 tourists. You know there is nothing doing in North Sydney when the number one attraction is the Marine Atlantic Ferry Terminal.  I asked for a map of the town and was given a map of the nearby town of Sydney Mines which did have some of North Sydney on it but not enough to include the tourist info center nor the post office which we were looking for to mail some cards. We did walk the downtown and made a purchase at Home Hardware.  Another 20 minutes away, we went to Sydney, supposedly the third largest city in Nova Scotia. First stop the info center at which I requested a map of the town. I got a one page map of downtown (basically 2 streets). When I inquired of a botanical garden I read about, voila, I got a map of the town! Turned out the biggest thing to see in Sydney is the world’s biggest fiddle, right next to the info center. There was a nice boardwalk along the waterfront which we walked.  Also walked the other two streets. Ate dinner at Governor’s Pub and Eatery and had a very good meal, seafood chowder, fish and chips and a Big Spruce Cereal Killer stout. Rosemary had the halibut.