St. John's

I’m 35 years old Male from New Brunswick. I have spent many years working in Alberta in the oil patch. Most of my co-workers and friends were from Newfoundland.

I have never been to Newfoundland. I am now working in computer software and my company is planning to send me over to St. John’s for 3 weeks all expenses paid.

Looking for a crew to show me around. Help me get the most out of the 3 weeks. Lots of pictures. I love Music, singing, dancing, I’m a mild drinker. I love Sailing and swimming.

I’m your average out of shape man. I DJ on weekends, love Texas hold em and enjoy meeting people. I am a camp fire, guitar slinging rum drinking(Never Drunk, only good buzzes) dancing fool.

Is there anyone that could show me around St John’s?

If anyone is willing to Introduce me to Newfoundland for my first visit, please email me david.aa.sullivan@gmail.com

Not sure when I am leaving for the rock. More to come…

Another question.
I have heard rumors about really good 4 wheeler tours in Newfoundland. Does anyone know someone that offers 4wheeler rentals and tours. I would definately go for one of these.

Well I had heard all the stories, just like everybody else… “Newfies are nice people, kind generous wonderful souls who will welcome outsiders in a heartbeat”. So I had to go find out for myself.

Well the first experience I had was with the moving company. They up and decided three days prior to arrival of my belongings to double my rate that they had quoted me!! I fought with them at length but they wouldn’t budge and the guy eventually got off the phone with me, and set his voicemail to say he’d gone on vacation for 3 days. Well I had to deal with the head office, which was fortunately in another province and so they were more reasonable and sorted it out so I only got a little bit screwed over. Ok fine, bad first experience.

What was to come next was a slew of treachery, deceit, con artistry, and substance-abuse-induced drama. I rented a place with a roommate to save money and to get to know the people a little better. Well did I ever get to know them. This roommate tried to con me into paying rent for 5 of her friends to live there who just showed up one day and took over the place. After I was unwilling to do that, she started spreading rumours about me to the landlord, who I fortunately got to first and so when that didn’t work she just up and disappeared one day, leaving me stranded with the rent. So I quickly put in an ad to find other roommates, two of which moved in. Well after a couple months of living with them and putting up with all manner of flagrant substance abuse, suddenly one of them just up and disappeared again. So I call to ask the landlord to find out what’s going on, and apparently I was being evicted for reasons he refused to tell me, but something to do with rumours being spread behind my back again!! I had actually purposely been avoiding the roommates because they’d been acting progressively more and more psychotic and going on weekend-long benders and spying on me and stuff. So that night the other roommate arrives and starts smashing around destroying the place. I call the police on him and they show up and he starts feeding them some kind of lies and more rumour again. That was the last straw, I left that day and came back only to get my belongings to move them to another place.

I tried not to let these experiences get me down, so I kept meeting more and more people, and each time they became aggressive, dramatic and sometimes even violent with me. Everybody here is a drunk. One girl I met “only” drinks 15 or 16 beer every 2 weeks and she says that she “doesn’t drink”. If you get plastered less often than once a week, you are considered a non-drinker. Getting drunk out of your mind once a week is the basic minimum, and you are VERY unusual if you don’t do this.

I have met several people who have lived here as well as other places in Canada, and every single one of them agrees and confirms that Newfoundlanders are the only people who have screwed them over really badly. It is understood that Newfoundlanders are nice to “their own kind” but very very mean and nasty to anyone who seems foreign or out of the norm. If you use proper grammar, you are most definitely going to be shunned and treated with reproach and disrespect.

To summarize, the climate in Newfoundland is the best thing about it, and sadly it is the most dreary, overcast in all of Canada, having the least amount of sunshine and the most amount of rain of anywhere. The people are absolutely horrid and the rumours about Newfies being “nice, kind, generous” people are absolutely untrue. They are greedy, treacherous, back-stabbing bastards who would step on your face to get over a mud puddle if there was a nickel on the other side. Worst people in all of Canada I have ever met, and I’ve lived 2 blocks from Main and Hastings in Vancouver, and also in Surrey, BC, as well as visited Scarborough, Ontario.

Now I FULLY understand how the cod were wiped out, considering the callous uncaring treacherous greed of REAL Newfoundlanders!! St. John’s, Newfoundland is worse, and tops them all in number of horrible rotten scumbag sleazy people!!!

For a weekend last summer. Incredible place. Great people.

Of all major cities of Canada, St John’s is the cloudiest (only 1,497 hours of sunshine a year), foggiest (124 days a year), windiest (24.3 km/h; 15.1 mph average), snowiest (359 cm; 11.8 ft), and wettest (1,514 mm; 59.6 in). However, St. John’s has the third mildest winter in comparison to other Canadian cities. [2] St. John’s has a Maritime climate with cool-to-warm summers, and relatively mild winters. The annual precipitation is moderate/high, with an average of 1,640 millimetres (64.6 in) per year. The city is also one the country’s most prone areas for tropical cyclone activity as it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to its east, where tropical storms and sometimes hurricanes travel.        

In 1627, St. John’s was “the principal prime and chief lot in all the whole country”. The resident population grew slowly in the 17th century, but St. John’s was by far the largest settlement in Newfoundland when English naval officers began to take censuses around 1675. Every summer the population swelled with the arrival of migratory fishermen. In 1680, fishing ships (mostly from South Devon) set up fishing rooms at St. John’s, bringing hundreds of Irish men into the port to operate inshore fishing boats.       

They have a street with just bars on it – Hey, how fun is that!

Not only in St. John’s but the whole province of Newfoundland have some of the nicest people you’ll meet on the planet. A little hard to understand a few of them with their strong accent but that just adds to the flavour of the place.

I recommend this place to anybody who wants to have a good time!

St Johns has a great selection of stores, from main stream stores like Sears, to little unique boutiques that you will not find anywhere else!

St Johns is also the oldest city in North America, being 400 years old!

Also, St Johns has the most bars per square foot in Canada!

I first went to St. Johns in March of 2005. I fell in love with the people, the scenery, the PUBS!, and the food. I desperately want to return to visit my friends, and I REALLY want some more beef and guiness stew, and fries with gravy and dressing! yum!!!

We are currently planning our trip for this summer and are inquiring about local opinions on what to do and suggested time to visit. We are well-traveled individuals and try to do advance preparation before setting out on our adventures.
In 2005 we abandoned our normal trek to Europe to travel to Nova Scotia as well as a visit to the western end of your island (or as much as you can see in only 8 days). We fell in love with Newfoundland and Newfoundlanders. So this year we are trying to fit in as much of the eastern end as we can with 14-16 (?18?) days. Our thoughts are to do 4 or 5 nights in St. John’s – we want to spend Canada Day there and take in part of the Theatre Festival. In addition to that stop we’re thinking maybe 2 nights in Ferryland, 2 in Placentia, 2 in Trinity, 2 or 3 in Twillingate, 3 in Grand Bank/St. Pierre. The towns aren’t specifically locked in yet – just an idea of the areas we want to visit – and the fact we don’t want to spend more than a few hours moving between stops. We are the type of travelers who enjoy the luxury of time in a place and freedom to explore the sites without rushing too much from place to place. Endless hours in the car don’t often afford much close contact with the places you are visiting. Discovering local events and mixing with people is another favorite activity. We’ll take whale and iceberg tours, but not in kayaks. We hike local trails, but not the ones that require carrying overnight/survival gear. We try to pick accommodations in advance and look forward to a mix of B&Bs, cottages and small hotels – I travel for a living so please spare me the Fairmonts or even Holiday Inns.
Our time frame is to start somewhere around 12 June. We have to be heading back by 12 July. We hope to see both icebergs and whales on this trip so we realize we are pushing the time frames for both and most likely will have to cover some lengthy distances. Please advise of any thoughts on when would be the best time to visit your area. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. We are hoping to set flights this weekend, so any advice would be well received.
Thank you for your time. Hope to see you soon.

This place is one of the most beautiful places I have been. The people are lovely and the scenery never quits.
The nightlife is exciting and there are plenty of places to go.

The one downside is that booze is expensive here.