Posts Tagged ‘Tours’
PRETTY PETTY
When guests ask us how to correctly pronounce Newfoundland, we let them know we’re probably the last group they’d want to consult on any sort of linguistic matter. “… want to consult…” Most Newfoundlanders are still speaking ‘Early Modern English’ with the same dialects we’ve managed to preserve since the late 1700’s. Remember…
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Tour guide and super man, Mike Edmunds just completed a McCarthy’s Party 12 day, cultural immersion tour of Newfoundland and Labrador. He sent such lovely notes and photos throughout the week, we thought they were worth sharing in a blog. “Who says hot air only come from politicians …” The best comes from…
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Brother Mark arranged for our staff to see the ‘Come From Away’ musical when the cast from Toronto’s theater visited St. John’s, Newfoundland for a 10 day tour last January. It was magnificent. An emotional roller coaster that brought forth so many memories, teasing our sentiments without ever allowing us to fully embrace the feelings…
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Yesterday we were invited to ‘The Rooms’ to hear Tony Curtis read from his new book, ‘This Flight Tonight’. Tony is an Irish poet of great renown, but his Mother best described this unique composition when she told him; “Don’t you call dis a book of poetry – dis is sometin you can actually read!”…
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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…
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