road trip to nova scotia canada if you're new to the channel hello and

welcome we normally bring you on our travels around the globe but this year

has been a little bit different so we've been exploring our home country of

canada in this episode we'll share another

unique stay with you this time in a converted church

we'll try the biggest donaire in nova scotia we'll come face to face with a

mastodon we'll take you to the halfway point

between the north pole and the equator and we'll also visit the bay of fundy

which is home to the highest tides in the world

so let's kick off this road trip

well well guys hello we made it welcome to stewiacke this is

probably the randomest place we've ever chosen to

stay basically we chose this place because we

were looking for unusual properties on airbnb

and we found a church a blue church that's been converted into this

lovely home yeah we just thought that's something we'd enjoy

check it out it's also strategically located not far from halifax

yeah which we're a destination we're going to be in a couple of days

and another thing that caught our attention about stewiacke is that

it's exactly the middle point between the north pole and the equator

right here in nova scotia

why not but enough chit-chatting let's take you inside the church shall we

all right guys so this summer we have been on a quest to find

the strangest most unusual most amazing airbnbs possible and i think this one

takes the cake this is my number one we are going to be

spending the night in a church a converted church here in

stewiacke so let's come on in so i can show you

what this place is like

this is crazy so like i said we found this

listing on airbnb so far we've stayed in tree houses suspended tree tents

we've done log cabins we've done off-grid cabins

and then this place caught our attention a blue church a former anglican church

that's been turned into this lovely place where people can stay up to

four guests so as soon as you walk into the church

the first thing you have is the bedroom king-size

bed it looks so comfy oh digging up after that long drive huh oh

it was a long drive guys we've been driving all day to get

here to nova scotia and yeah stained glass windows we have

stained glass windows and i really like what they've done

so they've installed some lighting behind the glass and you can play around

with it a bit change the colors and it just illuminates the stained

glass and makes it more vivid oh i didn't know you could change the colors

yeah whoa well i'd imagine i mean look at all yeah there's a color grid

that's so cool every color under the rainbow indeed

so yeah that's pretty cool there's lots of artwork here

yeah really like that painting of the bowl there's a

lovely book collection i mean if you're gonna be staying here for a few days

there are some great reads over there and yeah just lots of nice little

details like bits of art everywhere fresh flowers beautiful lamps something

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that brings us to the living area sam had a lovely little nap

over here on this couch how are you feeling well

better sam was my navigator today he used a lot of brain power to get us here

right i woke up i woke up early this morning

that's why that's why yeah so we have two big comfy

couches big screen tv oh it's gonna be awesome

just play off nhl hockey right now oh exciting stuff yeah um you can also

play music there's a really good sound system a wood burning stove

my favorite feature we are going to be putting that on tonight irregardless of

how cool it gets it's summer yeah even our host recommended we try it so

there's one of those yes there is and then we have

the kitchen a beautiful kitchen i wish i were planning to actually do some

cooking while we're here but we're not we're gonna go try the

biggest donaire in all of nova scotia on frank's

pizza frank's pizza right frank's pizza guys

oh let me show you something really cool that i noticed

this would be the baptismal font an antique look at that am i supposed to be

able to open this well if so you're going to need to do it

you're going to need to be oh wow you did look at that i can help

you with that no no no no no no no this weighs a ton

anyways this is where they would have the holy

water to baptize children just children maybe bathroom nc

bathroom the bathroom well forgets the bathroom

first of all washer and dryer combo this would be great if it were

like a random stop in the middle of your nova scotia trip and you need to do

laundry this would be the place but yeah nice

shower it's quite a big shower actually we have our toilet nice spacious

sink big mirror lots of towels it's a shame that we only have one night

here and then we are continuing onwards to halifax

but we're going to try and make the most of our time here in stewiacke

have a nice meal tonight going to do a bit of sightseeing tomorrow morning

visit mastodon ridge so yeah i'm feeling pumped pumped yeah yeah

hope you enjoyed the tour well hello we have not

seen much of you so far we haven't so we're pre-setting the table

because when we grab the donaire we're going to bring it back here

and we want it to stay nice and warm so we're trying to get everything uh set up

here at home before we bring it back mm-hmm biggest donaire

when's the last time you ate a donair it's been a while i mean obviously it

would have been probably been frederickton

um sometimes i go for a late night walks where i claim to be exercising

and uh pizza slices and donaires have been consumed in the past

i see okay exercising the truth comes out

we then walked over to frank's pizza which is known to have the biggest

donaire in all of nova scotia canada wow that's so cool

i guess we're trying a donaire okay this is called

the oka donaire the biggest donaire in all of nova scotia

it's so big that it's after the super extra large or something like that

then it's the oka and it's actually so big that i can't wrap it with my hand

i'm just gonna have to attack it like look at this if i just actually grab it

like that oh man it's just loaded like i i'm not sure because we haven't

dug in but like i feel like this could feed

like four to six people yeah we put it in a casserole dish and we're just gonna

serve ourselves so here's a donair meat guys

we paid extra to get cheese look at the cheese lots of cheese

there's the special sauce we've got tomato

we've got onion a lot of things going on so

i'm just gonna hack away here first bite

it's amazing i just love the donair me something unique about the way they do

it here in nova scotia in the maritimes it's got a bit of a sweet glaze on it

we've got our work cut out to finish sm trying dad's old fashioned root beer

in a fancy little mug here with ice cubes

better than normal root beer this is great it's an

awesome meal i've eaten a lot of donairs like in germany especially i feel like

this is really popular street food in berlin yeah um but the

difference about the donaires here in canada

is that they're sweet yeah like i almost taste like a honey glaze on the meat

and the cream sauce is also sweet i'm used to it being more like a

yogurt yeah so yeah it's it's very different it's not something i'm used to

but i do enjoy the cheesiness i'm sure we're going to be eating quite

a few donaires while we're in halifax oh yeah the official food of halifax

oh yeah yeah i still don't understand why it's not lobster

that should be lobster

what's this vintage hockey game i watch this as a kid my favorite team the

blackhawks playing against the colorado avalanche

the roenik sacacara belfor forsberg and i don't i can't i can't

remember who's gonna win because the last game

was the hawks i don't sure who's gonna win this one i actually forget

check it out hd baby

oh savard was even playing he almost scored

i hope ronix scores this is all gibberish to me

but yeah sam likes his sports as you can see

after a meal like that we needed to go for a walk so we ended up at the dennis

park trail which is only a half kilometer loop but hey

we made the most of it

uh

well good morning purple we have breakfast got some oatmeal i

made breakfast today it's actually more like fruit with

a side of oatmeal and buried underneath there's an oatmeal treasure at the

bottom yes there is a dig for it in there oh yeah we have

some banana green apple plum and i made

apple cinnamon oatmeal and maple syrup oatmeal brown sugar my favorite

it's all breakfast how did you sleep in a church

oh my gosh what's up so well such a comfortable bed

pillows galore which i absolutely loved it's a very peaceful little town here

so i just had the best sleep we had a busy day yesterday so i was really tired

yeah i was tired from driving so the plan for this morning

once we've had our breakfast is to visit mastodon ridge yeah i'm looking forward

to a little excursion yesterday i was just getting here and

now the uh the attractions the adventures the both

travel and food begin

we couldn't leave town without seeing what mastodon ridge was all about

our visit was short but here's a taste of what to expect

alright guys this morning we are visiting a very

quirky attraction here in stewiacke we have come to

mastodon ridge we're gonna be seeing the mastodon later

right now you can meet my friend the polar bear

and this is kind of like a small theme park where you can come and play mini

golf there's ice cream there are also markers

saying that this is the middle point between the north pole

and the equator line and yeah i think it's more for like

children you know young families but we thought it just sounded like

so quirky that we had to stop by just for a quick visit

it's great for some photos i mean for some photos i mean

when else are you gonna be in the middle point between the north pole and the

equator you gotta come here and snap a photo if you're already in

nova scotia canada and also i learned a little bit of a fun

fact i was wondering what's the difference between a mastodon

and a woolly mammoth like they both kind of look like prehistoric elephants

and apparently the mastodon lived during the

interglacial periods when the climate was a bit warmer and the woolly mammoth