The McCarthy’s Party Blog

My Father and I are in the process of writing a guide’s booklet for our 12 day, comprehensive tour of Newfoundland & Labrador. Though we’ve yet to make it back from Labrador in our musings, I did write this introduction last weekend and thought this letter said so much about our company and the experience our guests…

A post from Eugene Flynn: Greetings from Rankin Inlet, The sun is hanging around longer now and today the temp rose to a balmy -30. Once it hits the negative teens I’m hoping to get a tan and stock up on vitamin D!! Moods are improving all around and hopes of spring take on a…

My father marvelled at a man who comes from a well-established Newfoundland family down the coast. Despite having access to both a car and the fuel to operate it, the man had never crossed the peninsula to visit a neighbouring community; not once in his 43 years, not even after the government paved the 80km…

I took a young couple out on a St. John’s / Cape Spear tour yesterday. Not how I expected to spend my afternoon since it’s not exactly our busy season and we wouldn’t normally run a tour bus for two people. But it was a lovely day, the sun was shining, the temperatures were relatively…

With all the focus and attention on Newfoundland’s ‘Foodie’ scene these days – who would believe I’d be writing a story about a Hot Dog? Goodness knows there are “t’ousands and t’ousands” of additional stories I could share;  from Jeremy Charles nomination to MacLean’s Magazine’s ‘Top 50 most Influential People in Canada’  to Mallard Cottage’s run…