Evergreen Post: Historic Grand Bank

Happy Fall, friends and followers. 🍁

Last week, Paul and I took a work trip to Grand Bank and Marystown on our province’s Burin Peninsula. As coincidence would have it, we had taken a trip there ten years ago in October! With that photo shoot from 2014 at the ready, I thought I’d share it with you today. . .

It seems the older I get, the more I treasure the chance to travel around this province. Even when I visit a Newfoundland community I’ve been in before, it’s as if I see it with new and more appreciative eyes.

Earlier this week, I accompanied Paul on one of his little road trips for work, this time on the Burin Peninsula Heritage Run. Our destination was the vibrant town of Grand Bank. I hadn’t been there in over a decade.

It was a rainy trip. But good fortune smiled down, the sun came out as soon as we got there, and so did my trusty camera.

The authentic old buildings and heritage architecture I found especially charming. I’ll let the pictures tell the story of what I loved about historic Grand Bank.

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The Inn by the Sea Bed and Breakfast:

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The Thorndyke – Registered Heritage B & B. Notice the Widow’s Walk, a popular feature of long ago fishing communities:

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Lots of quaint and interesting architecture:

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 Harris House Museum:

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169…and another Widow’s Walk.

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And Old meets New–The Provincial Seamen’s Museum:

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192 Thank you for the lovely visit, Grand Bank.

 

 Where do you like to go for a road trip?