Companions
Program
St. John’s and Cape Spear with a Taste of Newfoundland (6 hours)
Become acquainted with the city of St. John's and its surroundings, including Cape Spear, the most Easterly point in North America. This is the oldest colonized region in the new world and your local guide will regale you with its steeped history, legends & lore - all flavored with their personal anecdotes and good humor from which Newfoundlanders are so famous. Enjoy the brilliant vistas from Cabot Tower and Signal Hill, one of the most recognizable skylines in Canada. Walk through a cliffside World War II gun battery, watch for whales and seabirds and visit the oldest standing lighthouse in North America.
On the way back from Cape Spear, we will stop at the famous Chafe’s Landing for lunch. Enjoy a traditional and fresh seafood lunch in the picturesque town of Petty Harbour. (Subject to change in the event that Chafe's remains closed for the season due to fire damage)
After lunch, we will head back to the city to visit Newman’s Wine Vault, where we’ll pair their famous ‘Port’, aged on the island since 1679 when pirates chased a shipment across the Atlantic for a winter in Newfoundland. Port is best paired with chocolate, especially those from the ‘Newfoundland Chocolate Company’ whose love and passion goes into every gourmet batch. Made with local ingredients, what’s not to love? Finally, we will finish our tour in Quidi Vidi where we will be visiting a local micro-brewery to try an assortment of their award-winning beers and hear an interpretation of the origins.
Friday:
A Musical Excursion Around the Bay (6 hours)
Let’s visit the many pretty outport communities that sprinkle the shores of Conception Bay; a region teeming with amazing stories about ancient pirates, WW2 submarine attacks, the dawn of transatlantic aviation, arctic exploration, and North America’s first European colony. This is a true Newfoundland experience that everyone who comes from away will embrace. Great times, great people, and great food await. After a hearty lunch we will have a demonstration of how to make our own Newfoundland “Ugly Sticks,” followed by a musical romp, where everyone will learn how to play their newly-made instruments.
