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A winter break in St. John's, in the province of Newfoundland in March 2001

Winter Break in St. John's

Tvor
2005-08-29 18:57:25

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not many names that seem to be based on Native/First Nation names and only a small percentage of French origin names which is uncommon to find in Canada.

Geography lesson over :)

Monday

Gayle has to work today so her daughter, Jocelyn, and I are going to drive around the city a little bit. Gayle had a bit of trouble with the car today so she took the company car to work and the man that lives in the basement flat gave the other car a jump start. Jocelyn and I decided to drive to the old fishing village of Quidi Vidi which is now within the city boundaries, on the other side of Signal Hill on an inlet. There's a few old buildings and houses, a very old pub, (closed) and a brewery at the mouth of the inlet. There's also a very old heritage house that now houses a craft shop. We took a few photos around the harbour but avoided capturing the brewery, a new building that sort of took away from the atmosphere.

We were hungry by this time, late in the morning and drove around looking for a cafe or something. We spotted a bakery called Bread Pig, which is at Rawlin's Cross and Queen Street. It's just a working bakery selling a small rack of goods with coffee and sweets available, mostly for take out thought there is a little counter and three stools in front of the window where there were vases of bulrushes decorating the sills. We each had a big fat cinnamon bun filled with cinnamon cream cheese icing! Divine!

Properly sustained, we decided to have a bit of a browse in a couple of clothing shops and later drove to Bowring Park, a large natural park in the city. There are lots of water fowl and little streams with gurgling falls flowing past the gentle inclining paths we took. A couple of times we gingerly made our way down the bank over packed but somewhat soft snow, still a good three or more feet deep if the half buried trash cans were anything to judge by and down to a bridge or clearing by the water to take pictures. Today is the first day it stayed sunny most of the day and though the wind could be a little chilly the sun felt warm and energizing.
We had to leave and do some grocery shopping as Jocelyn had to go to work for 3. I was planning to make a big pot of spaghetti sauce for everyone for supper tonight so I bought the fixings with fresh bread from the bakery we stopped at earlier.

So the trip was over, with a family night in. Jocelyn drove me to the small airport in the morning and I arrived home on time, refreshed and ready to face the rest of the winter and early Nova Scotia spring (which isn't often a whole lot better weather wise LOL)