Here are just a few photos that we took, mostly at the Market, in Saint John, New Brunswick. Saint John was easily the stop on the cruise that surprised us the most. We figured it would be a nice town to visit, but we had low expectations. We ended up really enjoying our visit.
As we got off of the Norwegian Dawn, there was an area with locals handing out maps and guide books (something pretty standard in many of the cities we stopped at). We talked to a very sweet lady who told us about their mall, market, and other attractions. She then gave us three pins each!
I thought that was very cool and generous of the tourism people in Saint John!We had an excursion booked for later in the day to take us to some of the more notable attractions in the area, but we had a few hours before that. We used that time to walk towards the mall and Market area.
I do enjoy visiting malls with character, and they do have a very cool mall with a local vibe to it. There is a library in the mall, and they have done a nice job of decorating the area outside of the reading spot.
There are some nice and convenient pedestrian walkways through this mall. I am certain that these walkways get a lot of use in the Canadian winters. We took the walkways/mall passage to the Market.
The Saint John City Market started up in 1785! It is Canada's oldest continuously operated farmer's market. Check out the photos, the market has a colorful beauty to it, especially with the decorations hanging from the ceiling.
This looks like a very nice place for locals to buy vegetables and that sort of thing, but there were plenty of things for tourists (we noticed a lot of t-shirts). New Brunswick coffee chain Java Moose has a booth set up here too, which is very nice!
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