And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I drove a pickup truck from Kentucky to France last summer, and passed through Newfoundland both ways. Got to take an iceberg watching boat trip out of St Anthony and it was well worth the time. In regard to the "Viking Art" post, I also managed to slope by L'anse aux Meadows, site of a multi-year Viking settlement and the earliest known iron production in North America. The Newfies introduced me to Screech to warm back up off the water, so I have two things to thank them for.
I can show you the French customs stamp on my passport and the temporary vehicle registration and insurance I had to get. Drove from Kentucky up through Maine, then into New Brunswick, across Nova Scotia, took a ferry from North Sydney to Channel Port aux Basques on the south of Newfoundland, drove from CPaB almost all the way around Newfoundland to Fortune, got on a ferry to the islands of St Pierre et Miquelon, which are part of Metropolitain France, not an overseas territory. They are about fifteen miles off the tip of Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula and as French as Paris itself. Got busted by the Candian border police for bringing a salami sandwich back through customs (Canada does not allow cured meat imports from the EU). They made me sit on a cold chunk of concrete while they searched through all my luggage and the truck. Never thought I'd be playing "hide the salami" with the Canadian Border Service.
Screech is "Newfie Screech," a rum blend peculiar to the island. From the name, you'd expect it to strip the enamel from your teeth, but it's actually quite mellow
That's a Newfoundland flag, the ice bergs float down from Greenland and Baffin Island in April and May.
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I drove a pickup truck from Kentucky to France last summer, and passed through Newfoundland both ways. Got to take an iceberg watching boat trip out of St Anthony and it was well worth the time. In regard to the "Viking Art" post, I also managed to slope by L'anse aux Meadows, site of a multi-year Viking settlement and the earliest known iron production in North America. The Newfies introduced me to Screech to warm back up off the water, so I have two things to thank them for.
ReplyDelete"I drove a pickup truck from Kentucky to France" No. I don't think you did.
DeleteScreech. You've never seen the TV show he was on? Weird that it's all the rage in Newfoundland!
DeleteI can show you the French customs stamp on my passport and the temporary vehicle registration and insurance I had to get. Drove from Kentucky up through Maine, then into New Brunswick, across Nova Scotia, took a ferry from North Sydney to Channel Port aux Basques on the south of Newfoundland, drove from CPaB almost all the way around Newfoundland to Fortune, got on a ferry to the islands of St Pierre et Miquelon, which are part of Metropolitain France, not an overseas territory. They are about fifteen miles off the tip of Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula and as French as Paris itself. Got busted by the Candian border police for bringing a salami sandwich back through customs (Canada does not allow cured meat imports from the EU). They made me sit on a cold chunk of concrete while they searched through all my luggage and the truck. Never thought I'd be playing "hide the salami" with the Canadian Border Service.
DeleteScreech is "Newfie Screech," a rum blend peculiar to the island. From the name, you'd expect it to strip the enamel from your teeth, but it's actually quite mellow
Bet theres some tasty cold water muscles and crabs for the taking right out the door, maybe catch a fresh pollak or flounder off the rocks.
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