[Magdalen] Gonzalo Passes Newfoundland.

[Roland Orr]

Now arriving in UK tonight as a rainstorm
Roland

On 20/10/2014 16:22, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
>   
> I see that this hurricane/(sub)tropical storm just grazed the far eastern
> tip of Newfoundland,
> Canada on the Avalon Peninsula which is where most of the population is
> located in the
> Capital City of Saint John's.  It's now going into Britain and then on  to
> the continent.
>   
> A race with 350 runners continued on yesterday despite the winds.   Tough
> people those
> Newfoundlanders.
>   
> I've always wanted to visit this island which is where the Appalachian
> Mountains finally wind
> down, and which extends so far east that it is closer to London than a lot
> of the rest of
> Canada.  The island has its own time zone yet!
>   
> It's a shame that the Newfoundland railway extending east to west until
> about 20 years ago
> is gone.  I'll bet that was a gorgeous way to see the island.
>   
> And then there is Labrador.  I'm old enough to have been in the era  when
> jet airplanes
> would refuel in places like Goose Bay, Labrador, Bangor, Maine, and going
> east,
> at Shannon, Ireland.  This time of the year to fly in over the  Tamarack
> forests
> around Goose Bay was gorgeous.
>   
> I notice there has been some expression of interest locally in  Newfoundland
> now that the local hockey team is playing St. John's "way up there in
> Canada".
>   
>   
>   
> David Strang.