The main reason for heading up to the far-northern tip of Newfoundland is to go and see the settlements in L'Anse aux Meadows — the only confirmed Norse site in North America. In 1960, Norwegian researchers found archaeological evidence of ~1,000-year old buildings that were similar to known Norse sights in Greenland and Iceland. We were fortunate enough to get a tour from a Parks Canada Guide who was a young boy in the nearby fishing village when the site was first discovered. He had played on the "Indian mounds" (as they were then known) as a child, and had

Getting to the tip of Newfoundland's northern peninsula is not for the faint of heart. Suppose you start in Halifax (already further east than 99.5% of North America's population). You first have to drive 4-and-a-half hours to the far end of Cape Breton. Then you need to catch a 7-hour ferry to the south-western corner of Newfoundland. Once you are off the boat, you have a further seven-and-a-half hour drive, not including stops. But that is assuming you can drive at speed the whole time, which you probably can't: it's a single-lane in each direction most of the way. Once