Posts by nfldinfo@mccarthysparty.com

Francis Corrigan told a great little story when we were discussing the advantages of using a local guide in Newfoundland (see Mark’s blog on this topic earlier this year – ‘Safe Assure’ https://www.mccarthysparty.com/blog/safe-assure/ ) Last year Frances was directing a group that overlapped a tour company from the mainland who were operating on an identical…

I’ve often wondered about the characters who spray paint the many rock faces along Newfoundland’s Trans-Canada Highway. What would possess a person to desecrate these geological wonders with indiscriminate scribbles and senseless professions? They’re not exactly random or spontaneous creations.     There must be some sense of planning involved?  I can’t believe people just…

A post by Mark McCarthy: “What we lost from the land we gained in the sea !” My father has often used this wonderful expression when he attempts to explain the Newfoundlander’s attraction and willingness to populate an island whose rocky coastline is located in such a challenging climatic zone. Our province’s nickname ‘The Rock’…

A post by Bill Trophy: On July 15 to 26, McCarthy’s Party had the pleasure of hosting a large and vibrant group of guests from the Bernard Betel Centre of Toronto. Centre coordinators Irina Shulgin and volunteer Irina Garlovitsly handed the reigns to me, Bill Brophy, as their in-province tour guide. What an honour and…

A Post from Jim McCarthy: Our tour guides have an arsenal of expressions to diffuse the unseasonal weather conditions we’ve experienced in Newfoundland and Labrador this summer but this story exemplifies my son Andrew’s ability to make every Newfoundland experience an enjoyable one. Last weekend I met him at the airport in Deer Lake where…