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Games

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The Board

Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.

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Down the road

Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.

Ferryland Lighthouse

ferryland · The Irish Loop

Walk a headland road out to an 1870 lighthouse and eat a pre-ordered picnic looking straight down the Atlantic.

The Ferryland Lighthouse, built in 1870, stands on the rocky headland at Ferryland on the Irish Loop. Lighthouse Picnics operates the tower's catered picnic experience: meals are ordered online in advance (ordering closes at midnight the night before, or when the day is fully booked), collected at the lighthouse and eaten on the headland. The light sits about 2 km — a 30-40 minute walk — from the start of Lighthouse Road, which turns off by the Colony of Avalon interpretation centre past the Southern Shore Folk Arts Centre; there is no parking at the lighthouse itself, and an independent hop-on shuttle runs during operating hours. Picnics are weather-dependent — rain and wind can stop delivery to the light.

How to get there

Ferryland is about an hour / 80 km south of St. John's on Route 10: turn off by the Colony of Avalon interpretation centre onto Lighthouse Road, on the right past the Southern Shore Folk Arts Centre — the tower is about 2 km (30-40 minutes on foot) from the road's start, with no parking at the light itself.

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On the go

Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.

The kitchen

Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.

The hall

Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.

The yarns

He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.

Not the house

No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.

Back up the road