St. John’s, Newfoundland’s Big Smoke

St. John’s, Newfoundland’s Big Smoke

As we headed downtown, we were in search of St. John’s Jellybean Row. We drove down the city’s oldest street, Water Street, along the harbor. After some reading, I had learned that Jellybean Row or the Jellybean. Houses were not a specific street, but rather were many of the houses on the downtown hillside. Duckworth Street was a good place to begin. The brightly candy-colored row houses weren’t hard to find. They were everywhere!

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Newfoundland’s Gros Morne National Park

Newfoundland’s Gros Morne National Park

Gros Morne, loosely translated from the French means ‘lone mountain’,  and it was visible from miles away as we approached from the north. Newfoundland’s second highest mountain at 2,644’ (896m), Gros Morne stands tall in the Long Range Mountains, part of the Appalachian chain, believe it or not, that stretch the length of Newfoundland’s west coast.

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