to the french coast....

ttp://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/portauport.html

(for a GREAT read on the history of Newfoundland check out

Theatre of Fish,

by John Gimlette

For many years the western coast of Newfoundland was known as the French coast due to treaty agreements between the British and the French fishing there. It was considered in some ways to be the short end of the stick, but as a visitor it is anything but. we will take the DRL bus frim MUN in St. John's and spend the day traveling around the north road of the island, pass Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor and countless other communities till we arrive in Corner Brook in time for supper tonight.

and Supper promises to be very very good as our host, Colette Urban of Full TIlt Newfoundland will be meeting us at the bus stop at the Irving and taking us home to a fish soup!

http://www.fulltiltnewfoundland.com/

we will be presenting tomorrow at the art college ....

www.swgc.mun.ca/

have to run or i will miss that bus....

BUS TROUBLE  : (

well i caught it....

we made it to the MUN (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador) connection and boarded our bus at 7:30 a.m.  The DRL busline has service that crosses the island from St. John's to Port au Basques once daily.  The trip from St. John's to Corner Brook usually takes about 10 hours with several stops including a lunch break in Gander Airport.  Unfortunately for us, our lunchbreak went from the scheduled half hour to 3 (THREE), as our bus had broken down.

the lucky part, Gander Airport has free WiFi so we were able to keep our mobile  activities up and running! still catching up though...