St John's Day 3

The first order of business was to check out the shops in the old downtown. Thankfully we found parking much better this morning. It's always a bit of a challenge shopping when you don't actually need anything. S found a few things to buy. Me, I had my eye on a sou'wester rain hat. I had a bit of case of sticker shock so I'll have to take a day or so to recover before acquiring same.

The city is famous for the colourful housing. Here is an example:

Our next stop was Signal Hill where Marconi sent the first trans Atlantic radio transmission. The hill was much steeper than I had imagined. Here are a couple of shots:

For lunch we proceeded to the little harbour of Quidi Vidi. We found fish and chip truck and also sampled some brews at the craft brewery. More pictures:

After some R and R, we ventured west rather than east to Portugal Cove. There we had an early supper of scallops at the Landings restaurant and watched the ferries come and to to Bell island visible off shore. Here is the restaurant:

There were two ferries the older MV Flanders and the very new MV Legionaire. I was interested to learn that the MV Legionaire was built in Romania to a Canadian - Danish design. Here is photo:

That is it for now.