Keeping the locals amused
Scot Free III
Frank & Anne
Fri 22 Sep 2023 20:59
Woke up to 6 degrees on the boat plus a frost advisory! Wind howling all night and rain. Keep combing through the forecast for tomorrow keeping our fingers crossed.
Harbour facilities now closed to visitors for the season, although we have very kindly been given a key for the showers and laundry.
Took the taxi to fill the jerry can with diesel and to pop into Foodland for a few additional supplies, including wine. Liquor stores no longer separate shops here in Newfoundland.
Taxi driver very entertaining. With practice able to understand him better. Highly amused that we’re here and offering us his BandB accommodation until Christmas. He also suggested we bought a house (lots up for sale), as we’re likely to be here so long! Here’s hoping we get away. . …
Returned to Mifflins Tea Rooms to try some Newfoundland specialities. A had a “Sampler”- a touton( pronounced tout-in)) deep fried dough served with butter and cloudberry jam, a fish cake, fish and brewis ( pronounced brews) ie salted cod baked with hard tack, baked beans, dark brown and baked in molasses (even sweeter than Heinz) plus bologna sausage meat. An interesting and tasty combo. The waitress put us right with our pronunciation! There’s a cry of wha?(rhymes with ma) if they don’t understand. We’ve heard it a lot today.
On the way back we noticed one house where the snow plough attachment was already fitted to their “spare” truck and another with two snowmobile parked in the drive. An ominous sign or what…. The supermarkets are already full of Halloween tat and the gift shops have swapped their carved wooden lighthouses for handmade Christmas decorations.
By 6 pm the wind speed had dropped considerably. Fingers crossed.