L'anse Aux Meadows

We woke up to an overcast sky with light rainfall (just like the forecast said) and by 8:40 AM we were on the road. It has been a long time since I drove in such terrible conditions. The weather, combined with deplorable road surfaces at times made for an exhausting 4 hours getting to L'anse aux Meadows. I am sure that when the road is dry it is easy enough to go around potholes and obviously not have to deal with hydro planing however this was not the case for us! On the positive side the rain stopped about 40 minutes before L'anse aux Meadows so that was a plus!

We arrived at 1:10, toured the museum, and at 2 PM, after watching a film we, along with a dozen others, had a guide give us a description and tour of the settlement. Very interesting!

The outline of the house in the photo is believed to be that of Leif Erickson (from the year 1000 AD). Super Cool!

Of course we had to showing off our inner Viking!

We left the site shortly after and were in St.Anthony by 4:10 which gave us enough time to start seeing the Grenfell exhibit. They closed at 5 PM but our ticket is good for tomorrow so we will finish off before heading back south.

We ate supper at the Lighthouse restaurant-it was over priced for the small amount of food we got but we had more local food and a local rum so all was good in the end. The restaurant was located at the end of town so there was a nice viewpoint and a few trails that we were briefly on before the 10 degree windy weather had as back in the car where we drove around the town.

We are in our motel room planning tomorrow's adventures.