Courtyard By Marriott St Johns St. John's

... on deck 5, you can actually see the waves coming across our window. We're trying to eat through the sea sick feeling, but Laura has retired to the cabin! Writing this email, i'm in the worst part of the ship, near to the crow's nest at the front... maximum movement!
We're approx 100 miles east of Newfoundland now... probably quite close to the Titanic again (although trying not to think about that!)
Over and out for now...
Love Paul & Laura xx

... chat till late. Michael offers me a Toscano (an Italian cigar) (I had declined after supper when we were in Gros Morne as I didn't feel like it at that time) and well aged rum. I accept. Not that I'll make it a habit, but you have to try everything at least once in life.

They invite me to go hiking with them on Monday (today) as they are planning on doing the East Coast Trail. I have plans to see more of the Avalon coast. Everybody I met ...

... touring. Michael says I should call them around suppertime and maybe we could meet up tomorrow night. I tell him I will.

PS. As to why the world would be a better place if we could all decide each morning what we wanted to do that day...the reason is that we would all be doing what we love doing. We all have such diverse interests that everything that would NEED to be done in the world would get done. Now THAT would be Heaven on Earth!

... Mary told me her about their son, Robin, who went to Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and earned a BM and MM in Sacred Music there. He began playing the organ in Bay Bulls when he was 11 because there were no organists in town. I listened to part of a CD of his choir. He obviously is spectacularly gifted and is now organist and choirmaster at St. Teresa’s in St. John’s. He’s ...

... so we quickly verified that our team is still in 1st place by now 2½ games. The owner also unlocked building doors to allow me to access the bank's ATM downstairs! Back onboard the ship, an announcement was made about an hour after our scheduled departure that due to high winds at the harbor entrance and 'adverse weather' conditions, the ship would not depart until 6am the following morning. That evening the dining ...

... So I was here in the heat of the day not able to leave cause I had no key. Then all of a suddent the painter showed up and started doing touchups. He is also a musician and invited me to his potluck later this week. He was around for about five hours and we shared a beer and listened to the new Rufus Wainwright. Now I have my key and I am eating "add water" Humus and sitting on my back balcony...and yes it is a direct view of the harbour and ...

... Zealand to save some money by just hooking it up here, and due to my phone being SIM it had to go onto Rogers, which I must say does not have alot of reception in Newfoundland, the number has to change when you change provinces and the reception is really well, ****. That is my tip of the day, DON'T JOIN ROGERS WHILE IN CANADA. Signing out from another cliffhanger episode "Cal's World Adventure" Cal

... several minkes. This trip also marked me heading to Cape Spear . . . North America's easternmost point. The lighthouse in the fog, the cliffs, the puffins . . . truly an amazing sight. The island is certainly earns it's name the rock. I was feeling adventurous after my "screech in" . . . downing a shot of Newfie Screech, eating some raw Newfie Tube-Steak (Hot Dog) and kissing a salted cod, I became an honorary Newfie . . .complete with a touristy certificate. So I knew when I ...

... Further down the hill is the Signal Hill Interpretive Centre. This place disappointed me terribly. On this very hill the very first wireless Trans-Atlantic transmission was received. Think of how that technology (and all of telecommunications) has exploded in the past hundred years. I had assumed, wrongly, that this interpretive site would be based upon that theme. Nope. For the umpteenth time I found myself reading about the process of drying and salting a ...

... of two lieutenant -governors of Newfoundland. Across the street is the Commissariat House. This simple but spacious building was completed in 1821 as offices and quarters for the Assistant Commissary General of Fort William. From 1872 to 1969, the commissariat was mostly used as a rectory by St. Thomas church. From 1918 to 1921, it was a nursing home and children's hospital. The commissariat has recently been restored as a Provincial Historic Site. BACK BRIEFLY TO THE ...