Posts by Andrew McCarthy

Newfoundland is a big island and when you add an extra day to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Red Bay and experience the magnificent coastline of south eastern Labrador, McCarthy’s Party’s ’12 Day Comprehensive Newfoundland and Labrador Tour’  has a lot of ground to cover with many amazing people, vistas, history, language, music,…

My Father tells a great story to emphasize Newfoundland’s unique concept of “time”, whenever he welcomes a group of guests on our 12 Day Comprehensive Newfoundland and Labrador adventure with McCarthy’s Party Tours.     It is terribly important for guests to understand and appreciate Newfoundland’s temporal perspective at the onset of their trip. This…

Its Canada’s 150th birthday and on this day of celebration its difficult to remember July 1st as a day of memorial for Newfoundland. But on this date in 1916 – 778 of our boys were instructed, “Over the top” and reminded to “Fall on the barbwire”, if they were shot at Beaumont Hamel during the…

A few years ago I had the great fortune to find myself guiding a private tour for a really interesting character and his family of three – him, a son of about 17, and his wife. This gentleman had recently sold a huge, advertising agency he’d created in Chicago. Now retired he had taken up…

My brother Mark has suggested that our guides provide a personal reading list of Newfoundland books we can add to their profile page on the McCarthy’s Party Tours website. This is part of our plan to familiarize our guests with their potential hosts and perhaps afford them with an opportunity to better prepare for their…