About Tours East

In Newfoundland there is a saying that many of us have learned to live by: “there ain’t been a bad wind yet that didn’t blow somebody good”. For more than 500 years, Newfoundlanders braved the elements and eked a living from the sea. We struggled to live with the ocean and we could not live without it. We have become soul mates.

Times have changed and our relationship with the ocean has also taken a turn. We have become more diverse, but our hearts are full of the ocean still. We do brave the elements but we have learned to embrace the salt air and rejoice in the fact that we live on an island – it’s a world of difference. We still have our parties in the kitchen and everybody knows your name.

That is what draws us to return, and as more of us spend more time “away” we learn why it is that we do. As the operators of Tours East, we have learned it too. After many years of racing to the next light and dead bolting the door, we just wanted something more.

We have also learned that we are not much different from those around us, which is probably why more people are visiting us in Newfoundland every day. They too want to smell the ocean breeze. They want to be called by name and know that when they leave their car to walk, it will be there when they come back. They want to stand on a cliff with not a soul around and see for forty miles. We like to do it too.

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