The McCarthy’s Party Blog

Just like the crowd down north claim more than 100 words to describe snow, so too does Newfoundland use a variety of terms when we talk about rain. There’s driving rain, gentle rain, sly rain, freezing rain, and my all time favorite, “wet rain”. Thankfully we don’t see “wet rain” very often, and when we…

On August 23, 2017 McCarthy’s Party was privileged to host Gloria Davies as one of their guests on our 12 Day Comprehensive Cross Island Tour of the province. Whether it was a coincidence or an occurrence of faith  this was Gloria’s second visit to the town of Gander. Exactly 63 years ago to the day,…

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…