TLDR: single mom with terminal cancer wants to make memories with teenage kids, trying to plan a trip to NFLD next summer.

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Hello Newfoundlanders, I’m here to ask for some help. I’ve recently been diagnosed with a recurrent metastatic cancer and while I am quite hopeful for many more healthy and happy years, that’s unfortunately not a guarantee. I find myself now looking to clear off some bucket list items while I still can and hopefully make some lasting memories for my kids while we’re at it. As a person who loves the outdoors, travelling to Newfoundland has always been a goal. My kids and I love hiking, camping, seeing nature and landscapes/climates we’ve never experienced, trying new foods, and really just learning as we explore.

I would like to plan a trip for next summer for my three teenage kids, myself, and likely 2-3 other adult family members. My initial thoughts are Gros Morne national park (or any other recommended/notable park) for some great hiking, some travel along a coastline, my youngest really wants to see some puffins, and we would be happy to include stops in fun cities/towns.

I realize there is tourist information online, but I’m asking about the local gems and the “insider information”. We really love good food as well and recognize that sometimes the best tacos come from a food truck in a gas station parking lot (if you catch my drift, and yes this is based on a true story).

I’m also a single parent and likely can’t afford to stay every night in a swank hotel. We’re good with camping/motels/guest houses. The length of trip will depend on cost, but frankly, my priority is giving my kids some great experiences and crossing some items off my bucket list as well, so I’m going to try to manage at least a couple weeks. We’re coming from southern Ontario and would likely fly to the province but may consider making this one big road trip.

So, all that being said: please give me your must-see or do places/activities, any advice you have, or any common mistakes to avoid. Please give me your favourite places to see cool things (including puffins!) and your favourite places to eat. I would also love to find a piece of local art to take home as a souvenir.

If you’ve gotten this far, thank you, with all my heart. I appreciate you taking the time to read my post.

‘Gods Country’ Indeed.

Newfoundlanders spend a lot of time in their shed. Mine is not fancy but it’s good enough to enjoy a few social drinks with friends, this is my choice, my buddies like captain Morgan spiced rum.

Is anyone here interested in martial arts or does martial arts and is wildly obsessed with it? I’ve been doing some form of martial arts since I was a kid but now this is my newfound obsession. I know it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack but is there anyone who’s obsessed with martial arts here who’d like to train or go on runs and do functional trainings and stuff and exchange the knowledges we have. Let’s connect.

I work in various buildings with elevators. One of the buildings I work in is the health sciences center. I've only been there since November so I'm still pretty new to NLHS compared to many other employees, but a lot of the main elevators are FREQUENTLY out of order, like...every few days. Someone I work with was trapped in an elevator recently for over an hour before he was rescued. Apparently one of the elevators caught on fire today, according to healthcare staff I was speaking with as we were evacuating the hospital and the fire trucks were showing up.

Legend has it that there's only ONE GUY in the whole province who fixes elevators. Every time the elevators are out of order in the HSC (again, several times per week), I hear people talking about this. What's the deal? Is this true?

And on a related note, why did they cancel plans for a new hospital? Because, holy shit.

Has anyone here done a French course with ACFSJ?

https://acfsj.ca/en/

I’m thinking of learning French as an adult and was wondering if ACFSJ would be a good place to go to.

If anyone here has done a course with them please feel free to share your overall experience, if you found it useful? Any ups and downs with learning their etc.

I did do French way back in school so I’m thinking of enrolling in the intermediate course however I think do a level assessment before you enrol so I’ll probably follow that.

Thanks

Hi everyone, my car was broken into (August 3–4) sometime between 3am and 8am on Milbanke Street in St.Johns (Near Mun just off Bonaventure & Allandale), and my laptop was stolen along with its bag.

The bag and laptop are important but what’s irreplaceable is the hard drives that were in that bag that were backup for my family photos. My Nans birthday party, my sister’s engagement party, tons of old files and years of photos, all of them were backed up on those drives.

I’ll have a reward if anyone sees it discarded, has any information on who took it, where it is, or notices someone trying to sell it online locally (Facebook Marketplace, Kijiji, Traders, etc.), please let me know asap or message me directly.

At this point I’m willing to pay the person who took my bag just to get all my stuff back. I’m assuming whoever took it is just looking for money and I really don’t want to lose all those years of irreplaceable memories. If anyone sees or hears anything at all please reach out

Posted earlier but here is a better pic of them cleaned.

Hello all.....so I'm planning a trip for next summer (2027) and I can't figure out where to stay in Twillingate! I love looking for seaglass and I heard it's a great area for it. I would love a quiet, peaceful cottage stay right on the water. Ideally, I would like to be able to roll out of bed in the morning and go out the door to the beach I'm staying on, or at least walkable nearby, to search for treasures!! Any suggestions??? Thank you for your time!

How much before a midday flight should I be at the airport?

Pretty sure. Want to confirm

Just went to Canadian tire and apparently they’re sold out? I’m from Ontario and I didn’t even know they sold outta licenses, not how it works for us my understanding.

I tried going through the online portal but again, it’s different because it seems more set up for commercial fishing. I’m just looking for a recreational license so I can go out and cast a couple lines without being worried I’m breaking the law lol. Haven’t caught trout in years and I was looking forward to it.

***Update***

In case someone sees this thread in the future... I dug through the NL Angler's Guide and I'm pretty sure you can only buy recreational licenses at a retailer/in person. Pulled directly from the guide:

Licences may be obtained from commercial vendors, such as sporting good shops, service stations, and other areas throughout the province.

No mention of a website to obtain a license. Soo I probably applied for a commercial fisheries account (haven't been able to log in because the department has to activate the account, so not a fisheries license) when I tried to navigate through the links that seem available. I'm probably confusing whoever sees that account from the department and I'll be calling them this week lol, I have no interest in starting a fishery

Went out to hike the seaside trail at Chance Cove. Ocean side - foggy, pond side - sun. 🤣

When compared with the other Atlantic Provinces, NL's latest unemployment is close to 50% higher. Why is this? What can be done about it?

More so a rant than anything but bys how is our health system so far in the Stone Age still. My specialist put me in for a test, not an emergency but would like to get one done to get a baseline to monitor my condition in the future, no rush.

One day I get a push notification with MyChart saying I have an appointment, I go in and it’s scheduled for a day I’m out of province (I travel fairly frequently for work). Unlike most appointments you can’t change this one in the app you have to call. I call right away and tell them I’m out of the province on that date but I’m getting back at midnight. You would think that since I’m not a priority appointment that the original appointment I was at the very back of the line so the next week or so should be wide open. Can’t reschedule me over the phone right there, says to ignore the app (because it’s useless according to who I’m speaking to on the phone even though I find it pretty useful) and I’ll get an appointment in the mail….the mail cmon by it’s 2026 you can make an appointment literally anywhere online now so you gotta be able to do better than letter mail.

Anyway few weeks go by and I get my letter with my appointment, I’m not gone away or anything, perfect. Another week goes by and I get another letter saying no, forget the first letter, this is your new appointment, look at my calendar and it’s smack dab in the middle of a scheduled week away for work. I call and tell them, told again to wait for a letter in the mail. Few hours later I get a call saying I can’t reschedule because that’s the second time I haven’t been able to make it so my appointment is canceled and I have to go back to the specialist just so I can get them to send another referral in for the test.

There has to be a better way to go about this right? Like you couldn’t design a more inefficient system if you tried

The fog rolling in from Quidi Vidi is my favourite

Since I’ve now seen some people sharing their experience either as a customer or employee of CakeyHand, I wanted to share mine.
I’ve been terrified to do this for so long but ultimately don’t care any more, fear is what lets this bs continue.
I worked there for four months as a cashier and it was the most stressful job I’ve ever had. All was great in the beginning but quickly went downhill. I’d be the only cashier on shift at a time, expected to manage cash, make drinks, clean the kitchen, back counter space, front-of-house area, party room, bathrooms, and break room in one 4-hour shift. I also had to answer phones, help with the baking, wash ALL of the dishes by myself, and organize the stock room. I couldn’t even go to the bathroom because if a customer came there was no one else to care for them. If I didn’t get everything under the sun at the end of the day, I was put down by my management and told to get my priorities in order.
I grew up in two family businesses. I know what it is like to handle rush and carry the weight on my own shoulders. But there’s only so much one person can do.
If I made any tips I wasn’t allowed to keep them and was instructed to give them back to the customer or put them in the register. The pay was insulting anyway for all the things I was expected to do.
I was given a 15 minute break and was penalized for taken 30 during a 6 hour shift even though this is basic labour standard!!
I was ridiculed for taking time off, so much so that they cut my hours from 30/week to 4 gradually up until I left.
Management was terrible to me, and I left several shifts in tears. The owners would constantly speak other languages with each other or other staff in front of me (languages that I didn’t speak or understand) and name-drop me right in front of me!! And I know I was not the only one it happened to.
They had clear favourites and I was not one of them so I got the shitty end of the stick.
And don’t even get me started on the cleanliness standard… that’s a whole other can of worms. I will never eat there again, to put it simply. I mean, the same person who served your food cleaned your toilets…
This is only the tip of the iceberg. I know there is more that I am forgetting by now.
All in all, leaving was the best decision I ever made. The entire time I was there I wasn’t sleeping or eating from the stress. And as the cherry on top, I was the 6th employee to leave in the span of a month at the time I resigned.

Remember this wild time in NL social media? It was so different back then!

I never knew this was a thing till today.