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Category: Road & Rail

Welcome to our Road & Rail section of TheHoworths.com.  Frequently updated, it seeks to bring to you the most informative and interesting stories from the roads and rails around the world. This is where you will find reports written by us as we travel and investigate top campsites, great hotels and fabulous restaurants. To share your news and views with our growing readership, send it to us by email, include low resolution imagery and any quotations. We will then give it our consideration.

People, Crafts and Music in Gros Morne National Park

Mollie White owner of Molly Made Fibre Art Studio working on one of her latched pieces

The scenery of the Gros Morne National Park that has formed the backdrop to this One Ocean Expedition on board the 117…

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Plants that Eat Meat in the Gros Morne National Park

The flesh eating pitcher plant, provincial floral emlem of Newfoundland and Labrador

Gros Morne National Park is dominated by two distinctly different landscapes, a coastal lowland bordering the Gulf of St. Lawrence…

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In Gros Morne National Park

kevin Barnes, Parks Canada Ranger describing serpentization in The Tablelands

We anchored off Woody Point in Bonne Bay a deep inlet that divides the Gros Morne National Park into a…

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Visiting Anticosti Island

Anticosti is another of the celebrated islands situated in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at a spot where the river…

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Visiting Percé on the Gaspe Peninsula

Rocher Perce on the Gaspe Peninsula from aboard Akademik Ioffe

On the mainland and directly opposite Bonaventure, lies the town of Percé (pronounced Per-Say) at the tip of the Gaspe…

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Bonaventure Island and the Gannet Colony

Watching northern gannets on Bonaventure Island

Having weighed anchor at 1820 in the evening we turned our bow towards the west and steamed slowly overnight deeper…

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Sailing to the Iles de la Madeleine

François Guay also owner of Vent du Large Restaurant fiddling at Millerand Harbour on Havre Aubert Island

Sculpted out of sandstone, the remote Iles de la Madeleine are situated in the middle of the Gulf of St.…

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Exploring Englishtown and the Bird Islands

Smoking herring at Le Fumoir d'Antan on Havre-aux-Maisons Island

In calm weather and good clear visibility the ship moved slowly northwards through the night back along the same track…

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Our Canada Wildlife Cruise Begins with Sable Island

Wild horse on Sable Island

Creeping out of Louisbourg in thick fog to the mournful sounds of the ship’s foghorn, our voyage to Sable Island…

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Having A Blast in Louisbourg

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As an immersion into history the fortress in Louisbourg is hugely successful and it is probably well worth allowing time…

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