Skipper

She's a dory, not a taxi.

Where do you want to go.

Skip to the page

Plan a trip

A shared trip

Games

Come in. Pull up a chair.

Trivia

The Board

Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.

Advertise here

Down the road

Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.

John Cabot's 1497 Landfall

The Bonavista Peninsula

Cabot reached North America in 1497 - where exactly, no log survives to say.

Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot), sailing from Bristol under English commission, reached the coast of North America in 1497, a voyage that underpins England's later claims to the region. The exact landfall is not documented: no contemporary log survives, and historians have proposed sites from southern Labrador to Maine. Bonavista holds the traditional claim - it appears in later retellings and was nationally celebrated in 1997 when the replica Matthew sailed from Bristol to Bonavista for the quincentenary.

The story they tell

Local tradition holds that Cabot stepped ashore at Cape Bonavista and cried 'O Buon Vista!' - the beautiful sight - naming the cape on the spot; a fine story, though the words belong to legend, not the record.

How to get there

The claim is commemorated at Cape Bonavista with the Matthew replica (in season) and the lighthouse — enjoy the story and know the scholars are still arguing.

Some story

Where that comes from

On the go

Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.

The kitchen

Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.

The hall

Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.

The yarns

He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.

Not the house

No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.

Back up the road