Saint-Pierre and Miquelon

[CdnCarrie]

Posting as the islands are featured this week on a CBC comedy called Son of Critch.

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr...miquelon/RK=2/RS=IT6frU_qWdze4uqKbDDuaahzJjM-

Has anyone been there? On my bucket list. I have been to Newfoundland.

 

[ronandannette]

Posting as the islands are featured this week on a CBC comedy called Son of Critch.

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrJ.TWD7_9j9OkE7kw5ByI5;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzUEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1677746180/RO=10/RU=https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/trip-ideas/travel-stories/5-really-cool-things-about-saint-pierre-and-miquelon/RK=2/RS=IT6frU_qWdze4uqKbDDuaahzJjM-

Has anyone been there? On my bucket list. I have been to Newfoundland.

I haven't but it's fascinating to me. Occasionally it's a stop on Atlantic Canada/New England cruises and I'd love to go there and visit France.

 

[CdnCarrie]

I haven't but it's fascinating to me. Occasionally it's a stop on Atlantic Canada/New England cruises and I'd love to go there and visit France.

Have you been to Newfoundland?

 

[maddiel]

Posting as the islands are featured this week on a CBC comedy called Son of Critch.

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrJ.TWD7_9j9OkE7kw5ByI5;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzUEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1677746180/RO=10/RU=https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/trip-ideas/travel-stories/5-really-cool-things-about-saint-pierre-and-miquelon/RK=2/RS=IT6frU_qWdze4uqKbDDuaahzJjM-

Has anyone been there? On my bucket list. I have been to Newfoundland.

I've been there twice. Flew there from Sydney for our honeymoon and then travelled with our kids via car/ferry during a trip to Newfoundland 20 years later.

 

[CdnCarrie]

I've been there twice. Flew there from Sydney for our honeymoon and then travelled with our kids via car/ferry during a trip to Newfoundland 20 years later.

What’s it like? Does it feel like you’re in France or Canada?

 

[maddiel]

What’s it like? Does it feel like you’re in France or Canada?

I would say that on the first trip (in 1990), it really felt like France. On the second trip ( which was only an overnight stay) it felt more like Canada, but it wasn't quite the same. There were 220 volt plugs in the hotel, for example and items in the shops were priced in Euros and were often unfamiliar brands.

The main populated area on St Pierre is very small - it's just a village but with some additional services due to it's isolation. There are only a a few hotels and they are small. The streets are narrow and often have convex mirrors at the intersections to help you see if traffic is coming. You can walk to everything but the cars you see are a mix of European and North American. The ferry we took in 2010 was a passenger-only boat - there was a faster ferry that could carry cars back and forth from Newfoundland, but it was being repaired and needed parts from France that kept it out of commision for most of that summer.

In 1990, all the stores were independents or a few French chains, but on our second visit there was less variety and I think I recall there being a Home Hardware franchise or something similar that was new since our first visit. Both times the food was very good - no Tim's or Starbuck's or other chain fast food.
On our first visit, it definitely had the feel for me of the kind of island you read about it an Agatha Christie, where we kept meeting the others who had come over on our flight over and over again. It didn't have quite the same feeling the second time, but you still had a sense of the isolation.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Americans did you know France was so close?

Any interest in visiting?

 

[kanne323]

Americans did you know France was so close?

Any interest in visiting?

Yes, and yes. It has been on my "someday" list since I was a young teen.

 

[RedAngie]

Americans did you know France was so close?

Any interest in visiting?

Yes, I am aware. No interest in visiting.

Ottawa should forcibly repossess those islands.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Yes, I am aware. No interest in visiting.

Ottawa should forcibly repossess those islands.

But it would be cool to spend Euros in North America!

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Americans did you know France was so close?

Any interest in visiting?

I had never heard of the island, but I'm intrigued. We've discussed booking a cruise to the east coast of Canada for several years. Thanks to @ronandannette I now know to look for a cruise that includes a stop there.

 

[ronandannette]

Have you been to Newfoundland?

No, but we've now got family in Cornerbrook so we'll definitely have to make the trip.

 

[CdnCarrie]

No, but we've now got family in Cornerbrook so we'll definitely have to make the trip.

We took kids on eastern Canada trip as it was important to me that they saw their country. (I had been there previously).
East coast is so amazing.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Americans did you know France was so close?

Any interest in visiting?

I did a paper on the territory in college. Montreal interests me more.

 

[moniqueand2]

Not been but watched an episode when Anthony Bourdain visited.