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On Friday, July 6, 2012 Riverfront Chalets & Rafting Newfoundland will be partnering with Gyula Takacs of Hungaroraft and combining over 40 years of whitewater experience to bring adventure to a whole new extreme in Grand Falls-Windsor!

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Viking Trail celebrates the place where the first Europeans to make landfall in the Western Hemisphere, Leif Erikson and the Vikings, came in contact with North America’s native people. Around A.D. 1000, Erikson led an expedition that sailed from a Norse village in Greenland to the coast of Labrador then south to Newfoundland.

The Newfoundland and Labrador tourism agency has reloaded the special offers page on its website. Among the offers is a two-night stay for two at the Hillside Bed & Breakfast in Twillingate, a small island in Central Newfoundland on the edge of what is known as Iceberg Alley, for $299. The package, called A Path Through Time, includes accommodations in the three-bedroom, restored 140-year-old home...

If you’re planning to visit us this summer, remember to call now (if you haven’t already!) to ensure any car rental, ferry bookings and accommodation. That way, your only responsibility upon arriving will be to have the most relaxing time possible…

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Six weeks after the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster showcased Iceberg Alley off Newfoundland, an early and plentiful show of the glacial sculptures is drawing visitors from around the world.

What do fish and brewis, cod tongues, toutons, Jiggs’ dinner and moose meatballs have in common? They are just a few of the delicious dishes served in Labrador and Newfoundland. My only complaint after spending two weeks driving across Labrador and down the west coast of Newfoundland with my husband, Barrie, is that I put on more pounds than I care to divulge.

ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND - You’d think icebergs are a regular occurrence in and around St. John’s. But apparently not.

ST. JOHN'S NEWFOUNDLAND - One of the great things about St. John’s is how easy it is to get out to the country. Often in just a few minutes. Or even seconds.

The province of Newfoundland and Labrador teems with culinary traditions from the sea and the land...

St. John’s, Newfoundland, is another of Titanic’s homes. On June 8, 1912, a rescue ship returned to St. John’s bearing the last recovered Titanic corpse. For months, deck chairs, pieces of wood paneling, and other relics were reported to have washed up on the Newfoundland coast...

When the last of the pack ice disappears and St. John’s harbour readies itself for summer traffic, one might be lucky enough to see an iceberg making its way behind the ships. The glaciers begin their parade down “iceberg alley” each April, slow moving and stately like German opera singers. It’s a kind of magic, spotting one.

CAPE RACE, N.L.— In a remote Marconi wireless station on the southeast tip of Newfoundland, the bland stream of “Wish you were here” messages from passengers aboard RMS Titanic ended with the inconceivable.

The approaching centenary of Titanic’s sinking has brought out all kinds of projects and commemorations. While most focus on some aspect of the ship, its crew or passengers – what they ate, what they wore, what they danced to - the role wireless played in helping rescue more than 700 people is the subject of a new social media project from Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism.

"You want to know why I am the way I am?" Zita Cobb asked. She’s a slender woman in her early 50s, with close cropped hair that gives her a certain iron-pixie mien. She has the distinct composure one often finds in people who’ve done well in the business world, brisk good humor layered over a fierce intensity.

Winter is the best season to snowshoe through Newfoundland‘s rugged western coast.

Sometimes the most timeless, heartwarming stories are born from tragedy. Three days ago marked the 70th anniversary of one of Newfoundland and Labrador's greatest marine disasters - the sinking of the USS Truxtun and USS Pollux. What is remembered today, is not so much what the sea took, but what one rural community gave to a rescued African American sailor who had never before experienced kindness at the hands of white people.  To commemorate the anniversary here's a great CBC article from 2009...

The easternmost hiking trail in North America, Newfoundland's East Coast Trail delivers hikers to a world of sea stacks, oceanside headlands, icebergs, and deep fjords.

Newfoundland, a.k.a. “The Rock,” (for reasons obvious to anyone who visits), is Canada’s eastern most province. It is a land of anomalies. It is almost 2,500 miles closer to Europe than to Vancouver on the west coast of Canada. Despite being almost as large as Cuba, less than half a million residents call it home.

Three spots in Newfoundland are finalists in a Canada-wide “great places” competition.

In the true Newfoundland and Labrador style of coming together to face a challenge, a team of local chefs will take over the kitchen at Bacalao to offer special five-course dinners while Chef Mike Barsky and the team represent the province at the Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championships in BC February 8-12.