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Up and out on a gloriously sunny and cool day. Ash and I went for breakfast downtown at a very funky restaurant

I had the Yorkshire Pudding Bennies… Oh my they were delicious

Afterwards we wandered up to Gower Street for a few pictures

And then in and out of some stores where Louise met a friend or two and I found a print of the houses with candles in the windows.

As we neared the car Ash mentioned the woman coming towards us was Krystin Pellerin from ‘Republic of Doyle’. I snapped a pic and had a brief chat about a restaurant alternative down the street.

We swung by the house to pick up Rati and went on an adventure. First was out to Cape Spear where the wind was cold but it was so beautiful

the wind creates snowballs like tumbleweeds

we spent some time at the Easternmost point of North America

Then a hike up to the new lighthouse through The Battery

Beyond it we could see the old lighthouse but it was starting to get colder

We wound our way to Petty Harbour, it is definitely missing an R in its name

Also finally got my sign pictures

From there we headed towards Fort Amherst, passing some kind of police incident on the way in, right at the houses which we had been looking at for sale online. Stopped for some more Harbour shots

then parked and walked up to the Fort

in the distance we could see that the weather had closed in on Cape Spear. It was bitter cold in the wind so we started back

We passed through the police area again which had multiplied with vehicles of all types, news crew and the road shut down. The radio said it was a police operation and later we found out it was a manhunt for a guy who’d broken into a pub

Ash arranged with a friend to let us in to the Club Room at the Sheraton Hotel. The view was spectacular. It seems that all views aim at Signal Hill in my tours

It was getting bitterly cold so we went for an indoor experience next at the Geo Centre. $12 for our self guided tour. I liked the Titanic part the best. There were so many details and truths that get ignored

We had to stop for gas and the weather report said it felt like -29 with the wind chill. As soon as we got home I made a big pot of chili and corn bread. Rati had to go to work, poor thing as the wind is howling round the house. Ash and I watched ‘Fast Five’ and relaxed. We are tired out from touristing.

Late night remembery: a shopkeeper today shared that he had been to BC and done the Westcoast Trail, back when it was just a trail. He said “people think St. John’s is beautiful but it’s not, it’s grey and bleak and trying hard. BC is beautiful”