2003 LUNENBURG NOVA SCOTIA, BLUENOSE CANADA

FROM WHEELCHAIR NOMAD DIARY... 2003 CC We drove eleven kilometres to Lunenburg, a town founded in the 1753 as a planned British colonial settlement, with some churches and buildings dating back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Protestant dissidents from France and Germany were encouraged to migrate there to bolster numbers. Today, tourism, shipbuilding and fishing are the major industries. Some buildings were older and less spruced up than Mahone Bay, but the housing designs were even wilder, totally fascinating even to the untrained eye. Like Mahone Bay carpenters and painters were at work everywhere, preparing for tourist season. It was now 8.00 pm so we searched for accommodation. In Lunenburg we stopped at the $75.00 Wheelhouse Motel. On the way we chatted with a family from Winnipeg, Manitoba. The dad told us, We saw a TV programme on the tall ships of the world. My wife has signed on to crew on the Pictou Castle, three months for $66,000.00, which sails the world. Its here in dry dock now after an eighteen month around the world sail. She will assist preparing the vessel now by painting, will be trained in the sailing skills shell need, and then will join the ship at the Vanuatu and sail for Rarotonga near Hawaii. Wow, what an exciting holiday, I said.

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[Ljotulfson]

Wonderful video - a place I want to visit after seeing this!

[locker123xxl]

Don,

Great narrative and enjoyed the show!

Regards,

e

[leobluesy]

nicely put together little video........

love those houses...........