Lunenburg is a modern city hidden inside a 250-year-old working fishing village. I have no pictures as every time I got out my camera it clouded over and the mist started flying. That too, is fairly normal. Walking the slanted streets of Lunenburg your eyes are caught by the brilliant contrasting colours the buildings are painted. Unless you look closely you could easily forget that inside these brightly coloured exteriors are modern conveniences and twenty-first century enterprises.
Bowing to modern regulations the historic Lunenburg Academy which is still in use as a teaching facility does not utilize its top floors as installing the required fire escapes would destroy its façade. Living with history is not without its costs it would seem. Hidden among all the artworks produced by the most modern of techniques are the bric a brac of centuries. The Yacht Shop has the most up to date navigational maps available and rope in all sizes, styles and materials imaginable. They also sold me the brass coat hook I was looking for. At Zion Evanagelical Lutheran Church where I worshiped the female pastor's voice is projected by a sound system that could grace any modern stage but from a rafter hangs the bell pillaged from the Fortress of Louisbourg and in the bell tower hangs a carillon whose peals rang through the town earlier in the day which was probably financed on the avails of rum-running. In a colourful exterior I found Foodland and there a bottle of Solomon Gundy and a container of Tancook Turnip Kraut. Add potato salad and you have my supper.
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