Cupids and such

Today was our day out of town. We had a minibus booked to drive us the hour down to Cupids. This is a small town on Conception Bay, where the first English settlement in Canada was started 402 years ago. They have found and are uncovering the remains of the 17th Century buildings in the town, and have actually set up a national historic site for this.

After visiting the interpretation centre, we went down the street to the dig site, and met with the archeologist Bill Gilbert, who showed us what they had accomplished over the years he had been working there. It was fascinating and wonderful. We could have spent many hours with him, but had to go on.



Our next stop was in Brigus, where we went out to Kent Cottage, run by the Landfall Trust. This is a very pleasant cottage at the end of the road, on a height of land overlooking the ocean, isolated from almost everything. It is available for rent to anyone, with a preference for artists looking for solitude. The photo is looking back towards the town from the path into the cottage.


Then off for a Newfoundland lunch at the Mad Rocks cafe in Bay Roberts. After a meal of fish and brewis, fish cakes, baked beans, and toutons, we felt more like a sleep than doing other things. But we did stop in town to see the building which was the western terminus for the trans-Atlantic cable from the early 20th Century until the late 1970's (it's now a museum, and art gallery).

Home took a while, and sleep before supper was a necessity. Then supper out at Olivers (again good). Now to bed.

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Location:St. John's