A trip to Newfoundland isn’t complete without a visit to Canada’s most easterly point - Cape Spear, home to Newfoundland’s oldest surviving lighthouse. It was misty and moody on the day we visited - no hope of seeing across the ocean to Ireland. And the drizzle/rain was intense, we were soaked through in minutes, absolutely sopping wet even beneath our rain coats.

The mists had settled into the surrounding areas, giving the small fishing villages a ghostly atmosphere. As we traveled west, the sun appeared through the clouds and we stopped briefly to view the memorial to Captain and Arctic explorer Robert Abram Bartlett in the town of Brigus.