Thursday - August 30, 2007

We certainly aren’t complaining about the weather this week, it has been gorgeous. Today we drove around St. John’s – what a confusing place to find your way around! We drove through Quidi Vidi Village then went to Signal Hill and the Cabot Tower, what a beautiful view of the city, the harbour and out into the Atlantic. While at the Tower we met Stephane Dion, got to shake hands and have a brief chat with him, did we get to chat with the next Prime Minister??

We then toured the Signal Hill Visitor Centre, they had a very interesting film on the history of St. John’s and the part Signal Hill has played in its history since the mid 1700’s. From there we drove through the downtown area – what a busy place and the streets are very narrow so it makes for interesting maneuvering at times!

We came back and I did laundry here at the park – it cost $13.50 to wash and dry 3 loads! After I finished the laundry we drove out to Torbay, then did a loop up the peninsula to Pouch Cove and then came back through Portugal Cove, St. Phillip’s and Paradise. When we got back we found a Swiss Chalet so had dinner there then stopped at a large Dominion, which is the same as our Super Centres at home, and picked up a couple of groceries.

We are finding a lot of traffic here, we have got quite used to the quiet roads on the rest of the island and it is hard to get used to all the traffic again.