Travel news: Canada’s best restaurants, Halifax’s latest arts venue and California’s once-secret grove

Ticket to trip

Good news for these eager to weekend in Niagara Falls with out having to cope with site visitors jams: GO Train’s summer time service from Union Station to Niagara Falls is again, working on Saturdays, Sundays and vacation Mondays. Package offers — a round-trip GO Train ticket, plus entry to Niagara’s WEGO hop-on, hop-off bus — begin at $25 per grownup. Or carry your bike: trains embody on-board racks, and riders will disembark one block from the Niagara River Recreation Trail, a paved 53-kilometre path stretching alongside the river from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Fort Erie.

Destination eating

The 2022 checklist of Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants has simply been introduced, and for the primary time, a Vancouver spot — Published on Main — tops the rating. Another first: A Calgary eatery, Major Tom, has been named the nation’s best new restaurant. The annual checklist is compiled by a staff of 100 judges and tastemakers, who consider institutions on numerous standards, together with their means to precise a definite connection to position by means of their menus. Major Tom, for instance, companions with Alberta beef producers to make cuts aged to specification, whereas Published on Main options native native substances reminiscent of camomile, nettle and morel mushrooms.

East Coast arts

After a two-year delay, a brand new multidisciplinary arts and efficiency venue has simply soft-launched in Halifax. Located within the former World Trade and Convention Centre, the Light House Arts Centre incorporates a 750-seat efficiency corridor, a dance studio, and a totally outfitted TV studio, the place “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” is now filmed. Upcoming occasions embody craft festivals and esports competitions, alongside performances by fiddler Ashley MacIsaac and Canadian rock band the Sheepdogs. The centre’s official opening is scheduled for this fall.

Protecting historic giants

A 400-metre boardwalk has opened in California’s Grove of Titans, offering entry to the old-growth sequoias in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Forest for the primary time in years. The $4-million (U.S.) mission gives a low-impact strategy to entry the world, which is house to 300-foot-tall redwoods believed to be over 1,500 years previous. Once a secret, the grove’s location was geotagged in 2011, resulting in an inflow of holiday makers trampling native vegetation and inflicting erosion. The new elevated path, in-built session with the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, will defend delicate understory development and present perception by means of interpretative indicators and reveals.

LGBTQ+-friendly journey

For the seventh yr in a row, the small Mediterranean island nation of Malta has been named essentially the most LGBTQ+-friendly vacation spot in Europe by ILGA-Europe. The group’s annual Rainbow Map and Index ranks 49 European nations on their authorized practices and insurance policies for LGBTI folks, primarily based on indicators reminiscent of gender recognition, hate speech, equality and non-discrimination insurance policies. Denmark ranked second, whereas Belgium got here in third.

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