St. John's

Our arrival in St. John’s yesterday was interesting! We managed to find our B&B, the Bluestone Inn, and traipsed up the three flights of stairs to our room. The best thing about it is its proximity to the downtown historic district. We can walk everywhere. And we felt like we did going up and down the hills. St. John’s residents who walk around here must be in great shape! We found George Street where a music festival is on and planned to return in the evening. We had missed Blue Rodeo by a few nights unfortunately. We went out for dinner-I have had enough cod so we went to a pizza place called Pi’s Gourmet Eatery. It was really good and after lots of pizza and ½ litre of wine we were ready to head home rather than to hit the bars!

After a good night’s sleep, we headed out to Signal Hill. We watched the Tattoo, toured the site and then headed up to Cape Spear. Both were very interesting and well documented. We saw whales and puffins at Cape Spear. The views from both were wonderful and we had good weather!! On the way back to St. John’s we saw a sign for fresh lobster rolls and followed the arrow going off the highway. We ended up at Petty Harbour, a quaint fishing village (quite a distance) and enjoyed the village, some locals who wanted to chat, and a lobster roll! It was a long way from the original sign but it was fun and we were happy we went. We got back to St. John’s and I looked up the dates/times for a theatre production that I wanted to see only to find out it had started 10 minutes before and is not to be shown again until Weds. (the day after we leave). It is called The Garden Party and is written and directed by Mary Walsh from This Hour has 22 Minutes fame. I hope we get to see it. There is another called Mutiny but the dates on that don’t work either. I am very disappointed to miss both.