A
crisp SUNNY 38 degrees when we woke at 7 am. The Walmart parking lot was not
noisy last night….yeah!
The photographer has declared a photo - free day!
We
went to get free WIFI at Tim Horton’s (across the street) to get emails, update
blog, find out about metrobus for St. John’s.
Then we booked in for one night at Pippy Park. C. A. Pippy Park is a large park in St. John’s
with walking trails, a campground (nice sized, large in fact). We selected the cheapest kind of site we
could (unserviced but we have use of their showers and dump station and fresh
water…woohoo) and that was ours for $32.75 (a few dollars more because I went
for one that wasn’t in a
Grassless
parking lot but treed.) Our site also
got WIFI at the motorhome because it was right near the sites that paid the price
for wifi…woohoo! I am guess that there
is a grand total of MAYBE ten rv’s here; come down in July and it will be fullJ The park has some nice well-treed sites; the
bathrooms are very dated
.
.
A
word about phoning home.in Newfoundland We checked both
phones before we left home to see if they were usable and they were not (a trac
phone with sim card and a non-contract Verizon phone with no sim card)…we decided
to purchase a Canadian phone…which took a couple of days. We wanted to use it for emergencies
mostly. Well, that $112 was really a
waste of money….coverage is not good at all.
We are finding wifi more than we thought we would so that would have
been our means of communication with
home. (Daughter is taking care of our
mail and house.) We have been finding
WIFI about every other day and sometimes every day. Should have saved the money or gone out for
dinner.
We
are finding that dining out in Newfoundland is costing us about 30% more here
(with exceptions of course)…something that we hadn’t known. So I would have allowed a larger budget for
dining out.
Beer? We brought the max we could bring (24 bottles
each) and when we need to replace them; they will cost us double. Plastic bottles have deposits on them (like
big water bottles or little bottles of juice).
We
had decided that we were going to use public transport to get into downtown and
avoid the driving. So I went online and
picked out the bus(s) we could take…we walked to the bus stop and the ones we
needed weren’t running at that time of day 1:30 pm. So what to do? Oh, we will just walk there…about
3.4
km or 2 miles or less. Off we go….walking,
walking….look up…what a BIG hill or little mountain except that it has houses
on it (lots of houses we are in suburban St. John’s. Up we go…oh, guess what comes next…down we go….down,
down…down sidewalks that have ridges in them it is that steep in some spots…down
some steps as well. Then we hit the
downtown harbor area…picturesque with its older buildings (we didn’t take any
photos!!!) commixed with modern buildings here and there. STEEP streets (wouldn’ t want to have to
drive my standard transmission car here).
We have lunch there and do some walking.
George Street is real quiet now but we are told it hops around 11 pm
(past my bedtime).
We
are by now wandering around trying to figure out how to get back … not going to
walk, nope. Taxi? (only in desperation). We try finding bus stops but the bus numbers
are foreign and no schedules/stops
Printed
on the signs. So we ask a women walking by and
start talking to her while she helps us try and figure this out. She then volunteers to take us back to Pippy
Park (probably easier than trying to explain anyway)…we had a nice chat with
her while she drove us to the parking lot by Pippy. THANK YOU…
Connie! A nice sunny, windy as heck day in St. John’s!
Spent
the rest of the day updating blog, doing laundry, relaxing from that up and
downhill slog.
Oh,
while we are here we are hoping to do some…ICEBERG spotting! The tourist information centers have
up-to-the-day information on where they are!!! OMG, I thought that was pretty
funnyJ So we
are going to try and find some…don’t see them in NY dontcha know! Oh, and there is also a website with
comprehensive map on the latest sightings
http://icebergfinder.com/
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