Yesterday Dad took Caro and I to the airport for our 1:15 PM flight to Toronto, connecting onward to St. John's, Newfoundland. All went well on the flights although our connection in Toronto left no time to get a bite to eat.
We arrived at 12:30 AM and after waiting a bit for the hotel shuttle we were checked in to our room by about 1:15 AM.
Caro's hunger pangs had us walking to a 24 hour Denny's about 15 minutes walk away. Even though I wasn't hungry I felt the "gentlemanly" thing to do was help her out with her plate of nachos (I am real nice that way!!). We were back to our room by 2:30 AM and soon Caro was asleep. Me? Not so much!
Somewhere around 4:30 AM I sort of faded to a very unsettled sleep. We were up at 9:30 and after a shower we walked down to Enterprise car rental.
I had reserved a Nissan Versa because I knew were going to put a lot of K's on this trip. Unfortunately they only had a big Chrysler 300 which they said we could have at the same cost. We were checking out the car before signing for it when I noticed the car mileage consumption indicator showed the car used 13.2 litres/100 kilometres (yikes!Almost as bad as Lisa's truck). We asked for a few minutes to discuss what we were going to do-we were thinking to go elsewhere. While we were discussing this the car rental guy came to us and stated they would take 15% off the total price to compensate us for the extra gas we would use! BONUS!!-that worked out to about $90 off our bill!. After that we hit the road and ended up driving to Grand Falls-Windsor (about 4 hours drive). It turns out the car must have been used only in the city because once on the highway the gas consumption dropped to 7.9 litres/ 100 kms!
We found an awesome BnB (highly rated on Trip Advisor) . The house is over 100 years old and we love it!
We went to a recommended bistro for french onion soup and fish and chips. While here in Newfoundland I will be trying various local foods and condiments. I took a photo of a traditional vinegar. UMMM-not too impressed but at least I had some!
We drove the old area of town looking at wonderful old houses and are now winding down for the day.
A great day.
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