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Fredericton: Day 2

Up early and out the door, I decided I wanted to see the city and what it has to offer. What I discovered were miles of walking trails, acres of public parks and gardens, neighbourhoods full of people painting their houses and once I hit the downtown area – countless bars.
Fredericton as it was told to me has a population made up largely of students going to one of the two universities or four colleges. That’s a lot of beer on a Friday night; it explains all the bars, but definitely not the churches. In the downtown core alone, a 6 block area there are five historic churches.

People that I spoke with today were a lot friendlier, helpful and very open about their city. I was pleasantly surprised by the slight accent they have and even more surprised to learn that I have one they’ve not heard.

I noticed a couple of things today. The first being that almost everywhere you look someone is painting something, a door, windows or the entire house. There are a lot of heritage buildings here dating to pre Confederation; it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that some of these houses are older than Canada itself.

There seems to be a lot of red heads walking around in downtown Fredericton. Sitting on a bench drinking a cup of coffee I spotted three women and one man at the corner all waiting to cross the street. None of them looked like an out of the bottle dye job either, lots of freckles and pale skin. Definitely not dye.

Interesting city this Fredericton – lots of bars, churches, young people, green space, parks and trees, there just isn’t much to do.

Still having a blast. Tomorrow I have to work.