Posts Tagged ‘Newfoundland tours’
FACADE BOOK
We encourage our guests (past and future) to follow McCarthy’s Party Tours Facebook Page, as well as the blogs on our family’s web site – www.mccarthysparty.com We post fun and informative stories (we call them “yarns”) every week, and there’s lots of daily updates; including beautiful photos, special interest pieces, and local news broadcasts. We…
Read MoreHEARTS DESIRE
A few years ago, we had a very young couple join one of our ’12 Day Comprehensive Newfoundland & Labrador’ tours. The average age of our guests sits around 70 years, and though seventy is the new fifty, these two fell well outside the bell curve. A mere youngster at 35, while she might have…
Read MorePETER, PETER, PETER
TO PETER LARACY AND THE MCCARTHY PARTY TEAM Hi Peter I arrived back home in Sydney Australia yesterday after having a wonderful time on the Tour in Newfoundland and Labrador followed by a visit to my sister in Ottawa. I would just like to say a big Thank You to you for providing a…
Read MoreROCK, ROCK
Newfoundland is a geological wonder that is worthy of notice, if not keen observation. The island comes by its nickname ‘The Rock’ with brutal honesty. This is the southern most extremity of the ‘Canadian Shield’; a region that was completely covered in ice sheets measuring a mile and a half in thickness. Glacial ice of…
Read MoreNEED TO READ
We had a very special guest join our last ‘Guide’s Book Guild Gathering’ – three of them in fact. Each of whom exhibited a strong connection to this month’s reading selection, Kevin Major’s novel, ‘Found Far and Wide’. A factional recount of a Newfoundlanders role in WW1 history – most particularly, the Gallipoli campaign where…
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