Day Eleven - Last day in Twillingate,
I have purposefully missed out day ten simply because we did even less on that day than we did the day before. To be honest we came at completely the wrong time of year to get the most out of Newfoundland. Everything is shut as the tourist season doesn’t really start until the end of May or early June. Now I was unaware of this before we came but my parents weren’t. I think the problem is that we were looking at the holiday in different ways. They were looking at it as an opportunity to come out and get the house all ready and set up for when they come back later in the year with a couple of their friends when they plan to visit all the interesting places we have been previous years. I on the other hand viewed it as my actual holiday and I don’t think they really realised this. Don’t get me wrong, I have had a really good time, I just think that had I known in advance what the plan was I would have suggested that they push the holiday back a few weeks so that I could go off and do things on my own if they didn’t want to come. Ah well.
That said today we went out to a place called Pikes Arm that, surprise surprise, is a little coastal fishing village with a population, according to the notice board, of 194. As with most places you can go in Newfie this involved a walk up a hill and an amazing view out to sea. I of course took loads of pictures but the over cast weather had the same effect on them as it did on me and made everything appear sad and gloomy. I will admit that I rather lost interest after that and was glad when we got back to the house. I have spent most of the afternoon in my room writing and this has cheered me up a fair bit. Tomorrow we set off back to Gander and fly back over to Halifax. Now while I am no where near as worried about this as I was coming out and to be honest haven’t really though that much about it I suspect that having this knowledge in the back of my mind hasn’t helped with my mood at all.
I will be sad to leave Newfoundland and our little house, and not just because I will miss seeing the girls basketball team clear up our beach. At the same time I am looking forward to getting back to my real home in England and seeing my friends and the rest of my family again. Not too fussed about going back to work though…which reminds me I haven’t bought my work mates anything yet and really should do so before we leave the country. Anyway I have had a great time and still have as full day ahead of me tomorrow before we return to England. We are meeting up with Linda, sister to Doreen and owner of the place we stayed on our two previous visits. She is planning to take us out somewhere which should be interesting and will give me a chance to take a few more pictures as so far I have only taken 623 of the things.

