2025 15N Trans-Atlantic Cruise Day 14: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Friday, September 12, 2025

Today’s Weather

View From the Port Webcam View From Another Webcam

E’s cough is pretty bad today. She did take a Mucinex and that seemed to help a lot. My cold is being totally handled by DayQuil, although my nose is running more. (By tomorrow night we’ll have emptied our stateroom’s box of tissue and be left with only toilet paper.)

Today is the best day of weather on the cruise. It is GORGEOUS out – finally short sleeve weather for our time in Halifax, which seems like a really lively town. We meandered our way along the Boardwalk, passing by several interesting statues, memorials, and the like.

Sculpture of Cunard next to our ship

We finally ended up at o the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which had some interesting displays, but we mistakenly visited before lunch when we were both pretty fatigued, so we didn’t even make it to the 2nd floor where the Titanic-related stuff was. The artifacts from the 1917 port explosion were pretty incredible, however.

Lunch was at a small (and very busy) café inside an office tower. Nothing special, but quick and the sandwiches are just what we needed. Post-lunch found another Earthcache as well as a fun Traditional cache.

In the MDR tonight our normal table was still occupied by the first seating diners who showed up an hour late, so we were instead placed at an unused table nearby. In fact, it was in the same part of the MDR as our family table on Radience had been. This allowed us to be served by our normal team, including the returned James. We said our goodbyes (since we’re at Giovanni’s tomorrow for the final dinner).

The Production show tonight was a vanity piece put together by singers Thaddeus and Kelia. Thaddeus led off and it was quickly clear that this was going to be a self-indulgent POS. We had enjoyed his singing during the prior shows but tonight was simply bad. We ducked out before Kelia came on, not willing to risk continued narcissism. Perhaps she was great, but I suspect it was another “look at how wonderful I am” kind of thing.