Posts Tagged ‘History’
PITCHED
We stopped on Newfoundland’s ‘Great Northern Peninsula’ so a guest could photograph the beautifully stacked piles of firewood lining the sides of the highway. As luck would have it, there was an elderly gentleman working this lot. Anxious for a break and an excuse to talk, he marched towards us with purpose; “Mind all the…
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One must keep an open mind while traveling in Newfoundland, for this is a most unusual place filled with all sorts of bizarre anomalies. Before you shake your head and dismiss something with; “Oh those Newfoundlander & Labradoreans” – we ask you to size things up, ask questions, and apply some good old-fashioned logic. …
Read MoreBORN TO RUN?
Touring provides us with an opportunity to meet some extraordinary characters and participate in many ridiculous adventures, but nothing compares to the recent trip we hosted in an autonomously driven vehicle provided by one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers. Scary? Supposedly. But nothing like the convoluted story it evoked this Halloween when we met…
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As we often explain to guests on our McCarthy’s Party Tours, much of Newfoundland’s cultural mosaic can often be attributed to the simplest of factors; including a shortage of fresh meat. To truly appreciate this phenomenon, one must realize that Newfoundland was once located at the southern most extension of the ‘Canadian Shield’. During the…
Read MoreMERCHANT OF MENACE
Just before we married, my wife inherited a ramshackle of a place in Bonavista, Newfoundland. It was a hard-old spot that looked fit for nothing beyond the haunts that were rumoured to possess it. We intended to flatten it and use the lovely section of level land to build a new seaside cottage. But those…
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