rants: Road Trip 2014: St. John's

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Road Trip 2014: St. John's

Our drive from Rocky Harbour to St. John's took about 6 hours which we pretty much did in one go. Rather than staying in a hotel, we decided this time to rent a house using my favourite site: Airbnb. The house was perfect, with tons of character and located right at the edge of downtown St. John's which meant we could walk wherever we wanted and easily access the sights via highway. Unfortunately somewhere between Quebec and Moncton, a tiny pebble hit our windshield. By the time we got to St. John's the small little chip turned into a very big crack, and we had to deal with that during our stay. Lucky for us, Newfoundlanders are lovely people and the windshield replacement place was more than happy to speed things along for us.

Between attending my sister's open house and banquet, we had a chance to visit the main attractions which was nice for me since I don't actually remember much of my last trip to St. John's . We went to Signal Hill and Cape Spear, both of which were extremely windy. We also had some amazing seafood including cod tongue, cod cheeks and Fish & Brewis (ick). Even just walking around downtown St. John's was really nice, and taking pictures of the Jellybean Row Houses was quite amusing. Needless to say, I really like St. John's and Newfoundland in general which I definitely need to visit again sometime soon!