Day 41 & 42 – St. John’s, Newfoundland

Day 41 - We woke up to sunshine this morning and started the last leg of our eastward trip to St. John’s. The roads were getting busier and the scenery changed from forest to the nice ‘rock garden’ look, and then back to forests again as we got closer to St. John’s. Not only did the scenery change when we got closer to St. John’s but so did the weather. It started to get cloudy again but showed no rain as yet. We had reserved a camp spot about a week ago but could only get a spot with a pull-through and full services as the rest of the campground was booked full. There is a major Newfoundland folk song festival on the go and that is likely the reason for the heavy demand. So here we are with our little pop-up trailer among all these huge motor homes and hard-top trailers.

We took advantage of the dry weather and spent the afternoon going up Signal Hill and then on to Cape Spear, the most easterly point of Canada, and thus of North America. We even got to enjoy some sunshine at Cape Spear so Leo took advantage of that and tried to capture the scenery which can be seen from there and from Signal Hill in St. John’s. We hope you will get some idea as to how beautifully St. John’s is located and how the ‘old’ town looks from these images.

Day 42 – Playing tourist in downtown St. John’s.

Unfortunately the weather did not improve: it actually got worse, and it even went from drizzle to full rain so we decided to go downtown to do some shopping and sightseeing. We also took a stroll up the famous George Street, which only has pubs on either side of the street for about 4 blocks of its length. There were just a few pubs opening up as it was too early in the day as yet. I don’t know if we will get back there of an evening later to take in the atmosphere and partake in a ‘pub crawl’.

Photos for day 41 can be found here. Sorry, but there are no pictures for day 42 as you likely already know what drizzle and rain look like.