This province is an island situated in the North Atlantic with a past full of adversity, suffering and war. The natives of this remote province have worked very hard to achieve the beauty and culture which anyone can witness today. Newfoundland is rather different when compared to the other Canadian provinces, it lacks the galleries, tourist facilities and other luxuries we all take for granted but this is what constitutes this province’s unique character.

Newfoundland’s rich history dates back to 1001 when the Vikings first settled here, however the more important turning point was in 1497 when the Italian Giovanni Caboto (also known as John Cabot) first saw this land and claimed the land an English colony for his king. The Grand Banks was developed by Caboto and developed as a fishing base.

Home to lively St John's and a sprawl of ribbon villages, the Avalon Peninsula is easily the most populated portion of Newfoundland, but here, as elsewhere, it's the rocky, craggy coast that makes a lasting impression - no less than 10,000km of island shoreline, dotted with the occasional higgledy-piggledy fishing village of which Trinity and Grand Bank are the most diverting, especially if the weather holds: even in summer, Newfoundland can be wet and foggy.

To get anything like the best from this terrain you need a car, for Newfoundland's public transport is thin on the ground. There are no trains and only one daily long-distance bus, DRL Coachlines, which travels the length of the Trans-Canada. Elsewhere, Viking Express runs a limited service from Corner Brook to St Anthony, at the top of the Northern Peninsula, and a number of minibus companies connect St John's with various destinations, principally Argentia for the Nova Scotia ferry and Fortune for the boat to St-Pierre et Miquelon .