Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Today we drove back down the road we’d taken from our emergency hotel a couple of days ago and on to the town of Kennebunkport – the only place in this area that hasn’t stolen the name from the UK! A Long Drive It was a long drive today of over five hours, mainly on …
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I’ll probably get in trouble for choosing the picture above as it isn’t really representative of the day we had in Acadia National Park but it was taken there. Read on for more… Park Loop Road We arrived at the park at about 8:30, which turned out to be a good move as the stopping …
Woke up in our emergency hotel and went down for our “free” breakfast. As you can see from the picture above, it wasn’t terribly appetising, although the freshly made waffles were better. We then headed off to our next destination, Bar Harbor, ME. We were travelling up the road that we were due to be …
We awoke this morning to find that the hotel had had a power cut at 6 am due to strong winds overnight. We made our way down pitch black corridors to the lobby where they had laid on coffee and doughnuts in lieu of breakfast. At this point we were told that the power company …
Having done the Berkshires (Lenox, MA) and the Green Mountains (Stowe, VT) today it was on to the White Mountains (Jackson, NH). The first part of the journey was from Stowe to Lincoln which was attractive but the highlight of the day was… Kancamagus Scenic Byway The Kancamagus Highway runs for 34 miles from Lincoln, …
It is a Thompson truism that somewhere on a trip a public building we want to see will be shrouded in scaffolding. In this trip it was the church at Stowe which was a shame as it is included in pretty much every picture of the town, although it was only the bottom half of …
Today, as we travelled from the Berkshires to the Green Mountains, it was a real taste of home. As we passed through places with names such as Manchester, Wallingford, Shrewsbury, and Rutland, none of them looked anything like their UK namesakes, but maybe it reminded the founders of home. We came to New England for …
It was time to say goodbye to Boston this morning and head out into rural New England. That meant going back to the airport to collect our hire car, a very ugly Ford Bronco. Given that we were here to see the autumn colours (sorry, “fall”), there didn’t seem to be much point travelling by …
After a day with fabulous weather yesterday, today was the complete opposite. During the day, it was either raining or raining heavily. However, we’d planned ahead and already decided that today we’d do things that were mainly indoors, starting with… Fenway Park I have to admit that I am not much of a sports fan, …
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When you’re jet-lagged and know that you are going to have difficulty sleeping and most likely waking up early, the last thing you want is to be woken by an alarm in your room. But this is exactly what happened to us just after midnight. Unusually this wasn’t a tonal allarm but spoken and rather …