LUCY'S SKYE

Breakfast with a view of the mountains.

Beach is just down the road from Hortas Do Rio —View from our deck.

One of several walkways out to the cliffs.

The “Atlantic Path”

Sito Do Forno

Unassuming, but one of the best Seafood Reataurants. Sits out on the Cliffs near the Atlantic Path.

One of the Seafood Specialities —

Havana -In Fusterlandia section of Cuba

Side Street just next to Capital Bldg in Havana

Taxi’s-Havana

Farmers --Mantanza's area

Mantanza's/Cardena's area

Mantanza's area—Laundry Day —No dryers here

Meeting on main street

Local Farmer —Village 60 miles outside Havana

Cuban version of hot dog cart

CUBAN VERSION OF A CAR

Domino’s Game

Roof top water storage

Village  Water repair Dept--No joke all by shovel, pick, and bucket -No equipment  

Whatever it takes

Family above all else

2 Cart Garage

TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES ARE MANY IN CUBA

Mantanza's/Cardenas area—OFF TO WORK

The John Deere alternative

Common site -Water Tanks and Laundry -Village just outside Havana

Mantanza's/Cardenas area—The vintage cars and trucks are everywhere and still running in spite of the 40 plus year embargo

Organic Farm Mantanza's/Cardenas area

 Organic farm -Mantanza's/Cardenas area

ALL MEALS ARE HOME COOKED —LITTLE TO NO FAST FOOD IN CUBA

Great Cooks

LUNCH MADE FROM WHAT’S GROWN ON THE FARM

Tobacco Farmer Mantanza's /Cardenas area

Explaining the fine art of Cigar making to the Gringos

HAND ROLLING

Hand rolled

THIS IS A LOCAL TAXI —”MOST TAXIS ARE TRUCKS WITH A SATAIRCASE WELDED ON THE BACK TO GET IN AND OUT

Rear entrance to Taxi

Two fine looking Oxen

Look at that 60 year old chrome and rear lights which worked

Semi Pro Baseball Park — HAVANA Cuba-they love the game but lack decent facilities

Old Time Semi Pro Player —Now a Coach

Local Team —Uniforms —are not common due to lack of money

This park was at least 60 years old

Havana Capitol Bldg- 1950/60's cars still used as taxis for tourist

Building dedicated to Che Guevara

Fusterlandia -section of HAVANA Cuba artist Jose Fuster has transformed with his tile work—Everything is made from small pieces of tile —all hand done

This is obviously dedicated to the revolution let by Fidel back in 1962

Fusterlandia -section of HAVANA  Cuba artist Jose Fuster has transformed with his tile work

Fusterlandia -section of HAVANA  Cuba artist Jose Fuster has transformed with his tile work

My riding partners

Even the signs date back to pre revolution

Havana Day care center run by the church

Havana — The cubans are for the most part pro American

Notice the rain Barrel —second Floor — Havana

60’s Ford Fairlane

Everything’s for Sale —except the dog

Sunset on the Malecon

Havana Couple Sitting in the front door of their apartment

Street 1-2 blocks off of  the Malecon -Havana

The Art District

Havana apartment

50’s NASCAR ?

Street 1-2 blocks off of  the Malecon -Havana

Late Night rendezvous

They don’t make Trucks like this TANK anymore

Havana— Central

Street 1-2 blocks off of  the Malecon -Havana

A little peek in

2 Havana City street workers —Note the homemade brooms

Internet Sq —One of the few places you can pick up Wi Fi

Old Picture of Fidel at a Children’s Center

Sunset a the Malecon

Music on The Malecon

Peek off the street into Living room in Havana

The Castro brothers picture in Hospital lobby in Havana

Again just blocks from the Capital —The infrastructure is decayed

56 Chevy

The Malecon is the escape for many -Music, walking, people watching , swimming —its the main drag

Swimming at the Malecon 

Physical Therapy Room in Havana Hospital

Another Vintage Chevy —although restoring relations with Cuba would be good for everyone —Be assured that the arrogance of some Americans and their money would prevail and this great characteristic and charm of the old vintage cars would be dissolved within months. The cars shipped to the States like trophies in a Safari hunt and lost to the Island of Cuba forever

A local troberdore and my friend Higo cross paths

Some of the nicer apartments just outside City Center

Music is a life line for the Cubans

Youth band -Havana

Music is the ability to express oneself in a restricted environment

Professional Dance Company

Its Art

Barber shops are all over Havana -This is from the Cuba Barber shop Museum

Vintage Caddy meets Vintage Chevy

Teens gather along the Malecon to swim day and night

Grocery store -Mostly for tourists -- but notice the empty shelves

Most Cubans buy at local farmers market

There are two currencies in Cuba —One for the locals and one for the Tourist

Street under repair—- for years

Old Fin back Caddy -like new in spite of being over 50 years old 

Famous Hotel Nacional Havana --It still has all the amenities it did back pre revolution and has been updated

Picture Of Yuri Gagrin —First man in Space and Russian Hero

Featured in Hotel Nacional Havana

Hotel also has hundreds of other pictures of Hollywood stars, gangsters, global politicians , royalty , Dictators etc all of whom stayed there at one time.

Still unavailable in US —legally

My ride to the Hotel

Suspended standoff

Cinque Terra

Brooklyn , NY

Rockport Ma

Coney Island NY

Galway Ireland

Sullivans Island SC

Lisbon

"The Fenway" Boston

Rockport Harbor

South Carolina

Midwest USA 

Portugal Coast

Nashville TN 

 Surviving the turmoil --Lisbon

Austria

Lisbon

Central Park NY

Exhausted

Andes llamas

Iceland

Changing of the Guard -Prague

Dresden Germany

Sully's "Hudson River" Plane on its way to Charlotte

Charleston SC

Havana Cuba 2016

Lunch --Peru

Portugal

Churchill Downs -KY

Concord NC

Havana Cuba

Maryland USA

Gloucester Ma

Central Park NY

Brugge Belgium

Cut Bridge Gloucester Ma

Cinque Terra

Cinque Terra

Charelston SC

Forlorn Berlin Zoo

Deadwood SD

Louisa KY

Pastel alleyway

Spain

White Night- Portugal

-Unknown Appomatax VA

Street Market -Austria

Focused Chlt NC

Another Perspective -NY

Clam Shack  Maine

Children of the Andes

FIsh Market Spain

Central Park -NY

Rockport Ma

Charleston SC

The Bike Trail Trail is called GAVES starts within a mile of the Lourdes campus. It’s an old railroad bed at the base of the Pyrenees. Roundtrip is over 30 miles and goes through 12 villages.

Bikes can be rented from BIKE & PY within 3/4 mile of Lourdes

ST.JOHNS -GOWER STREET -JELLY BEAN ROW

ST JOHNS -DUCKWORTH ST

St Johns

LOOKING DOWN FROM GOWER STREET TO ST JOHNS HARBOR

Gower St

Cabot Tower -Signal Hill -First Transatlantic wireless cable transmitted here 1901

VIEW OF ST JOHNS FROM SIGNAL HILL

Cape Spear Lighthouse -National historic Site and most easterly located lighthouse in North America

The 1835 Lighthouse at Cape Spear

Both Cape Spear Lighthouses

Fort Amherst at Entrance to St John’s Harbor. First lighthouse in NFLD was built here in 1810 -Current lighthouse was built in 1951

Quidi Vidi Village - a neighborhood of St Johns

Quidi Vidi Brewery -Nfld and Labradors largest craft brewery. Located at QV harbor. Famous for its world class ” Iceberg Lager” made with water harvested from Icebergs found off the coast of NFLD.

QV Harbor Fishing sheds

QV Harbor

Petty Harbor -When one side gets worn out -juts add on

Old grave yard Petty Harbor

Petty Harbor

Dories at Petty Harbor

Petty Harbor -looking South

Wharf road -Petty Harbor

Capt Doug Howlett mending the pots -Petty Harbor

Bird Islands off Witless Bay -Witless Bay is a fishing community and is home to the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, which contains North America's largest Atlantic Puffin colony and the world's second-largest colony of Leach's Storm-petrels. There are over 250,000 Puffins that inhabit these islands

Grounded -Witless Bay

Running the Goat Books & Broadsides— Tors Cove — is a micro press that publishes children's literature of exceptional quality. Its publications celebrate the life and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Atlantic Canada.

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The press has a working print shop and is home to four vintage printing presses, and has a storefront area that sells work produced on site, as well as work by other local letterpress printers, printmakers, and publishers.

Many of Running the Goat's publications are letterpress printed at the print shop, using moveable lead type, and sewn by hand.

The inspiration and owner of RTG.

This is the village of Tors Cove —its off the main road but typical of many of the villages on the Irish Loop.

RTG is the Green Building -Far upper left.

Grand Banks -Sharon’s Nook- Tea Room plus

Grand Banks -Light at Harbor entrance

Restored Captain’s house which is opposite the Seawall in town of Grand Banks

Do you think the name on the dumpster was a coincidence ?

Fortune Harbor -North End — Twilight was setting in —This is all natural light and as a result the shadows and reflections on the water were enhanced.

Fortune Harbor -”The Sheds”

Fortune Harbor -Dory

Fortune Harbor

Fortune Harbor -South End

Lamaline Light house -Just off the entrance to the harbour at Lamaline are a collection of dangerous shoals and islets that is purportedly how the community received its name. Lamaline is a corruption of “La Maligne,” a French term meaning malignant, evil, or wicked. . First Lighthouse was lit here in 1879.

Lamaline Light house

The Lamaline Light/Lens

Wayne ThornHill Lamaline LK

Ferry between Fortune and STP — Peole only -Ferry can accommodate cars -but no car ramp in Fortune !

View from the light

Patrice Tronquee -Lifetime seaman, who has traveled the globe, and now is the SE officer on the Ferry

Saint Pierre and Miquelon, officially the Overseas Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France. It is located approx 18 miles offshore of Fortune Newfoundland or a 75 minute Ferry Ride.

St Pierre is the main Island as far as population goes and with the island of Miquelon having more seals than people.. Total population of STP and Miq is 6300—(5700 living in St. Pierre). St Pierre Island is only 10 sq miles.

Some quick Facts -Island has changed hands between the British and French numerous times since the 1700’s with French getting control in 1814 . Fishing was the main industry that brought people to settle here It was a rum runners paradise during prohibition.It has a deserted fishing village ILe Marins —just outside the harbor which at one time was the home to over 600 people

It has its own time zone — Newfoundland is 1 .5 hours ahead of EST but go to St. Pierre 18 miles away and you pick up another 1/2 hour

It is France -in so many ways —

St Pierre street map

De Gaulle Square

Dory Sheds/Launch Ramps -St . Pierre

Working the ropes to launch the Dory

Dory Launch —This dory had been rebuilt by Assoc.Les Zigotos -a group dedicated to restoring vintage dories. Signed by the townspeople for luck

Crab Pots and Dory sheds

Some of the Zigotos members after the launch at their shed

Work in Process

The Zigotos craftsmen and a Dory under restoration

This imposing industrial looking building, located in the middle of town on a residential street, is Lycée-Collège d'État Émile Letournel and is a combined Primary, Junior high school and Senior high school/”sixth-form “college”. The school handles students from ages 6-18 with the following explanation of why the word College , as we know it ,is used in the description.

Primary Education -School education follows the French model and is compulsory for children between age 6 and 16. The primary education phase lasts for 5 years. (11)

Middle Education-The next phase of education takes place at middle schools that are called colleges. The program takes a further 4 years, during which time a standardized academic curriculum applies. During this period a student’s future education orientation is decided that often influences their future working career. (12-15)

Secondary Education-Education choices become available during the final 3 years of secondary school education. These include scientific, literary, and social & economic options. Successful students who complete the program are awarded a baccalauréat diploma. (16-18).

Remember this is an island , with lapprox 6.000 inhabitants and where the nearest French port is 2500 miles away.

Rue De La Fauvette —The Keatings lived here between 1868-1896

Their house was on the right side and is long gone but located approx between where the yellow house with the red trim and the purple house are located.

Old Village House early 1900’s

Vintage Cottage St Pierre

L'Île-aux-Marins (literally "The Island of the Sailors"; before 1931 called Île-aux-Chiens, literally "Island of the Dogs") is a small island (middle of the picture) located just outside the harbor of St Pierre and was a commune until 1945, when it was annexed by the village of St Pierre

It was settled in 1604 and once had a population approaching 700. It has had no permanent population since 1965 when the last families left due to economic conditions ( although a small number of people live there on a seasonal basis from May to November). Several unique buildings still stand, such as the church the Jézéquel house, the cemetery, a number of fisherman's homes, and the Archipélitude Museum located in the town's only school.

L'Île-aux-Marins- some of the last few houses

L'Île-aux-Marins

L'Île-aux-Marins -Some of the houses have been restored and are used during the summer months

Church at L'Île-aux-Marins

The rugged coat line provides the backdrop to the Stations of the Cross on the Island

L'Île-aux-Marins TransPacific Wreck

The transpacific was a cargo ship flying under a German flag

On May 18, 1971, the German flagged general cargo ship Transpacific kaving lost use of of its navigational aides was caught fast on the shoals off St .Pierre while trying to make landfall

At the time of her loss Transpacific was outbound with 11 passengers and a cargo of general freight, that included aluminium, logs juke boxes and ri lawn mowers!

The efforts of salvage tugs failed to tow the ship clear and the Captain ordered the engines to be shut down and the vessel was abandoned.—cont .

That night the fishermen descending by the score became intent on looting the vessel’s cargo. Close to 70 island dories carried off cargo, furnishings and provisions.

The Captain returned with some of his crew the next day hoping to restart the engine and pump off fuel to lighten the ship and renew salvage efforts but the looting fishermen, keen to hang onto their illicit booty, saw him off and prevented his re-boarding.

Eventually local officials decided to burn off the on board stash of oil and set fire to the ship. She blazed and smouldered for 61 hours.

What’s Left of of L'Île-aux-Marins village center

East Trinity

MIck Feehan’s Workshop- Melrose NFLD

Mick-=Artist, photographer, wood carver extraordinaire and Gentlemen!

From Eagles,to whales, to puffins . Mick carves each walking stick

One of Mick’s many talents

Sometimes Carvings not necessary when you have Roots like this

On Rte 239 on the way to Bonavista

Ellinston

Elliston—What a great view from your backyard

A home on Iceberg Alley

Vintage but still functional -Elliston

Ellington

Bonavista -Old shed sitting seaside

SPILLARS COVE

Ice off Bonavista

Point Bonavista lighthouse

The treacherous coast line of Bonavista

Point Bonavista Generator House

The Ice Flow in early May was something else. There were times when I could count 12-15 Icebergs . Also a fw had floated in close enough to the shore to capture a decent photo . This is at Cape Bonavista

Between Spillars Cove and Bonavista

Point Bonavista Lighthouse

Trinity Village

TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH AND GRAVE YARD

Trinity—Backyard view

Trinity

Trinity—Parish Hall at end of street

Trinity Boat Shed

St Patrick’s Church / Lawn Bell steeple

Trinity harbor and the house on the hill

Trinity

St Patrick’ Parish Hall

Its a picket fenced village

Trinity Drug Store !

It’s a village of Colors

The Artisan Inn and Restaurant -Excellent accommodations ,food and staff

Trinity from the seaside trail

Leaving Trinity

RTE 239 -Trouty

Outside of Goose Cove

Small Village Rte 239

Church and Grave Yard GC

Goose Cove

Weather Beaten

Dories -Old Bonaventure Harbor

Lobster Shed OBH

Village of New Bonaventure Harbor

Village of New Bonaventure Harbor

Joe’s Bar -Closed for the Season -New Bonaventure

Rest Rooms at Joe’s —what did you expect ?

NB Harbor

NB Bed and Breakfast with a view of Joe’s

NB Vintage Barn -just above Joe’s

View of Joe’s from the village

My Guess a Hunters shed—Somewhere between St Johns and Burin in the middle of nowhere

There may have been 660 collisions last year but I DIDN’T SEE ONE