Life's about experiences. These are mine.
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 …
This is the holiday that we were supposed to be taking before it got postponed by Covid, and then when we were freed from those restrictions, we did go to the US again but went to the West Coast instead. So, this holiday to see New England in the Fall has been a long time …