Saint Johns and Cape Spear NL Sept 2019

It was tough to leave our accommodation on Bonavista Peninsula but leave we must.  If we come back to Newfoundland we will want to stay a week here.  We drove to Clarenville about an hour away and had a B1 service done on the Accord, did some grocery shopping and then headed to the Avalon Peninsula for our next four nights/three days.  We are staying at the "Butler House", a renovated historic 100 year old home that is wonderful..we are close to the ocean but no ocean view, so a step down from our last place but still a beautiful home.  We're in Cupids, the oldest established town in Canada and the second oldest in North America.  Our first full day it's cloudy but no rain, and we head into Saint John's for the day.  The greater Saint John's metro area is 200,000 people so about 35-40 percent of all Newfoundlanders live here.  It's the oldest established city in North America with John Cabot arriving in Newfoundland in the late 1400's.  We took in Signal Hill, the historic downtown area and went our to Cape Spear, the easternmost point in North America.  Donna did some gift shopping, and spent a lot of time in the Weavery, a very nice store with a two clerks, one Polish lady in her 40's who emigrated to Canada around twenty years ago, and one 19 year old from Kansas who moved here with her mother just 2 years ago, although she was born in Vancouver (making her Canadian, although she grew up in the US) and her mother is Canadian...we had a lot of fun visiting with them.  Another great day in Newfoundland.