And the highlight of today's drive. Bonavista blocked with icebergs. Bonavista is in my top three favourite outports in Newfoundland, full stop. Trinity and Grand Bank are the only others that are as beautiful and as authentically Newfoundland... the haphazard urban form, white picket fences up to your ankles, colourful traditional homes... just love it.
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That townhouse with the mansard roof is sooooo Toronto. Unlike the Victorians in the first picture, it's a housing vernacular that you don't see too much down the highway in the Hammer.
You remind me of a funny convo in the car today doing to see them. We went right after fetching our friend D. from Kazakhstan at the airport. He's lived here for years now, just spent three weeks in California and Kazakhstan and was anxious to get back.
jeddy1989: You know what's weird? They don't know icebergs on the west coast.
Me: Hey, you're right. They don't come down through the strait. They must be excited, all the crowd in town for the show this weekend!
D.: There are people from B.C. here this weekend!?
jeddy1989/me: ...?
D.: Oh God, I forgot... not only I have to get used to English for the first time in a month, but also that nowhere else exists. You meant west coast of NL?
When I lived in mount pearl people asked me where I was from, I always said the west coast, they always looked at me and said.
ah, corner brook eh b'y?
I looked back and said
No, I'm from BC.
They'd reply, ah a mainlander eh b'y.
Love newfoundlanders
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Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
A few views from North End Halifax posted by Duff.
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I was lucky enough to get a tour of the Homewood Suites tower that is now open. I didn't take many pictures inside but got some of the views and the courtyard.
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