SEE YOU SOON

McCarthy’s Party Tours has always maintained a keen focus on quality service and customer satisfaction. We’ve developed a brilliant tour and our guides provide such a thorough indoctrination that our guests leave the province sharing Newfoundland’s passion for “home”. And since most of them found us through a personal endorsement from friends and family, we…

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COME FROM AWAY – HERE TO STAY

Everyone is talking about the Broadway Musical sensation, ‘Come from Away’ that we saw in St. John’s, Newfoundland  last week.  And why wouldn’t we? Its an amazing performance that truly captures every human emotion experienced by those passengers who were grounded in Gander during the 911 attacks, and the Newfoundlanders who helped them survive, and…

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ST. JOHN’S TOP 10 JANUARY JOYS

Its that time of the month again, and so we find ourselves reviewing the reams of photos which didn’t make it to our social media sites – only because we’ve engaged in so many wonderful activities and events that we simply don’t have the space to post them. Normally we “Purge Post” these pictures in…

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KEEPING IT REAL

We take some criticism for not “Tuning” the photographs we use in our McCarthy’s Party social media posts. My cousin David tells me we live in a digital age and the human eye has come to expect vivid displays of colour on our electronic screens. In order to find and maintain an audience, he insists…

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REALITY CHECK

We left Newfoundland on July 1, 2005, and on our very first day in Vancouver I landed a job as a “Genny” truck driver with a television / movie production company. It was a bizarre set of circumstances that made for a great story. So entertaining, I wrote a “Pilot” for ‘Skerry Boy Television’; a…

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