I’ve been quiet here the last couple of weeks and I really shouldnt have been seeing how I had a photo ready to go and plenty of time to post them. I guess I just got distracted with other stuff and forgot to post.
The good news is it appears I’ve got a new job starting soon so that will fill my days with real work but also hopefully allow me to upgrade some of my camera gear soon or maybe pick up an antique camera or two I’ve had my eye on in a local shop.
In the meantime here is a photo I took a couple of weeks ago in the Basilica in St John’s. It’s a beautiful building and stands out from the rest of the city in that it’s old stone work. I’m not sure if it’s the oldest building in St John’s but it has to be up there as one of the oldest. Most of the rest of downtown is wooden structures and very distinctively different from back home but the Basilica could easily be in any town or city back in Ireland which I kinda like in a way. I love the rest of the city but it’s nice to have someplace “familiar” to look at.
We are off on another road trip at the weekend, off to France! Well St Pierre and Miquelon which is a small island off the coast of Newfoundland but which is still part of France. The last of their outposts after the fall of the colony of New France to the British.
Hi Declan,
I’m not surprised that the Basilica reminds you somewhat of Ireland – a lot of the stone used in building it is Galway limestone and Dublin granite shipped from Ireland – no small feat in 1839!
That takes dedication to ship over that amount of limestone must have taken a huge investment. Also there is another link that I’m not sure about but beside the Basilica is the convent building and on it’s walls there are two carved heads which look exactly like similar carvings on the outside of a church in Dublin Castle. I wonder if the same stonemason worked on both.