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First stop, the lovely city of Toronto, solely for the fact that I could get a cheap flight there without going down to Heathrow and then drive down to the border with

obelix. I should probably mention that the outskirts of Pearson International Airport look like the roads were designed by someone tipping a pot of spaghetti onto a map and so I was forced to get my satnav out and try the US-Canada-Mexico chip I'd bought much earlier than I had expected!

South to the border, it was time to blag my way into the US. Again. The fools, they keep letting me in! Then, it was on to exotic Lansing to hang out with a bunch of folks who only have to put up with me once a year. ;)

Alas, during MW I missed out on

przed's Sherlock Holmes panel because I was asleep (and on dinner with

przed and co. because I am a disorganised dumbass) and the UNCLE slash panel because I couldn't find it (what was with that?), though I did attend one on White Collar and a Glee slash panel as well. Yes, really!

And then it was over, for another year! :( Though I still had my holiday in Newfoundland to look forward to! :) (Yikes, I appear to be doing the emoticon equivalent of

moonlettuce and her interpretative dance!) And so it was that I got up at oh-my-god-it's-early and jumped on a plane to St. John's, making sure I didn't accidentally get on a plane to Saint John instead as that would have taken me to a whole different province.

I spent a few days in St. John's, which is a city built on a decided slope, though I didn't take all that many pics there. For that side of the island, I'd decided to stay in the city and drive out to places rather than do the tour round I would do later on the Labrador side and I'm not sure if that was all that good an idea. Though I did get to catch up on my sleep and got my first sunburn of the trip so it wasn't all bad!

There are two sets of this statue, of a Newfoundland and a Labrador, in the city - one by the harbour, pictured, and another on Signal Hill.

Apparently typical summer weather for St. John's, with an arrow pointing to Cabot Tower on Signal Hill in the mist, which building is pictured in much nicer (sunburn-causing!) weather another day in the next photo...