Let's talk about the cod moratorium

Hello Cloud Town visitors - here I am in St.John's, Newfoundland, listening to the CBC in a pretty little kitchen, drinking lemon-ginger tea and nursing a summer cold that I got from going from Montreal temperature (35+degrees) to St.John's temperature (10 degrees) in just a couple of hours. It's all part of the adjustment period, although I hope it adjusts soon because my head feels like it has bricks inside of it (hold the snippy remarks).

What can I say so far? The houses are beautiful and colourful, everyone is as friendly can be, the street are clean, the air is fresh and there's a symphony played by boats in the harbour on their foghorns in the afternoon. In a little while I'm going to go to a lantern-building workshop in a park. Hopefully I will be around when the caplin - huge swarms and

waves of tiny silver fish - roll up on the beach to spawn, and people go to the beach to scoop them up in big buckets and have fry the little fish around fires on the sand. Everything here feels nice and healthy, which is why I hope this stupid cold will be a short one.

More posts and photos to come soon, promise!

The Newfoundlander on the Street