St John's Jelly Bean Row Houses

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The colourful rows of houses in downtown St. John’s are often referred to as Jellybean Row (also a part of the heritage palette, I might add) - for obvious reasons. Every now and then, a tourist will come up to me and ask me, “Why?”
Well, there are two answers as to why. The real, and the kind of, sort of, maybe, but not really real. I prefer the latter. It’s said that in the early days, sailors - who had long been out to sea, when returning from the fishing grounds - would look up to see their homes on the hills. And, every now and then we’ve been known to have a beautiful veil of fog hanging over our city, which is not necessarily the best condition for seeing your house. So, sailors elected to paint their homes in bright colours to make them more visible, to pop and shine against the cool grey backdrop of mist.

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So beautiful houses❤❤❤❤

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Thank you Ahmed!

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Wonderful images of downtown.

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Thanks Ryan

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Very Beautiful video!

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Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it.