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Category: New England 2017

Friday 20th October – final bits of Boston

October 20, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we decided to go to Harvard as we hadn’t managed to make it last time we were here and

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Thursday 19th October – Full circle

October 20, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Another beautiful day which started with our now favourite breakfast in the local deli, this was followed by a walk

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Wednesday 18th October – Scenic Drives around the Mohawk Trail

October 18, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

This morning we decided to go to our local deli for breakfast as they have seating at the grill where

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Tuesday 17th October – Stockbridge and the Shakers

October 17, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

We woke this morning to clear blue skies but freezing temperature so much so that we actually put hat and

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Monday 16th October – the beginning of the end

October 16, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

They say in New England if you don’t like the weather wait a minute which was definitely true in reverse

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Sunday 15th October – Around Woodstock

October 15, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

It was a bit overcast today but has warmed up quite a lot so after breakfast we decided to walk

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Saturday 14th October – Woodstock via the Green mountains

October 15, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we are moving on to Woodstock, although I don’t think it was the one where the music festivals happened

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Friday 13th October – Vermont’s covered bridges

October 14, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

We started today by having a quick walk round Stowe village as we haven’t don’t so yet, there isn’t actually

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Monday 9th October – Kancamagus Road and White Mountain National Forest

October 13, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today’s weather forecast was for rain of varying strengths all day, at first we thought that they had got it

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Thursday 12th October – Around and above Vermont

October 13, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we should have got up at the crack of dawn and had a balloon flight but frost and high

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Wednesday 11th October – From one Ski resort to another

October 12, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we head to Stowe and decided to start the journey by re-doing the Kancamagus highway as it is not

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Tuesday 10th October – The road to the sky

October 10, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

The rain that we had yesterday had blown itself out overnight and we woke to almost clear blue sky’s and

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Sunday 8th September – To North Conway via the lakes

October 9, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

We had a really long drive today made longer by the fact that we have added Rangeley Lakes into the

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Saturday 7th October – A tour round Schoodic and Bar Harbour

October 8, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

When we were at the top of the Cadillac mountain yesterday Schoodic peninsular looked like it had a lot of

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Friday 6th October – Acadia National Park

October 6, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today is all about exploring Acadia National Park which we are staying right on the edge of. By this time

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Thursday 5th October – Towards the colours – hopefully

October 5, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Our route today is to Bar Harbour which is about four hours if you take the direct route or five

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Wednesday 4th October – The Kennebunk’s and a lighthouse

October 4, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

We had a relaxed start today as our first stop is actually only a few miles away in Kennebunk (we

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Tuesday 3rd October – Strawberry Banke

October 3, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we went back to Portsmouth to visit Strawberry banke as we hadn’t had time yesterday. This was an area

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Monday 2nd October – Back on the road to Kennebunkport

October 3, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

We managed to escape Salem without being captured by ghosts or witches and set off for Kennebunkport. We took the

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Sunday 1st October – The Salem Witch trials

October 2, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today was all about all things witch, we are actually lucky that we are in Salem at the start of

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Saturday 30th September – Falmouth to Salem via Plymouth

October 1, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

The weather for Chris’ birthday didn’t start well as it started raining during breakfast an for the start of the

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Friday 29th September – Lighthouses of the Cape

September 29, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Despite the forecast which suggested it would get colder and a bit damp we woke up to wonderful sunshine this

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Thursday 28th September – The small towns of Cape Cod

September 29, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today was all about visiting the small towns up and down the cape, as we left the room it was

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Wednesday 27th September – Whale Watching on Cap Cod

September 27, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we have booked onto a Whale watching trip which ‘guarantees’ you will see whales or your money back, so

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Tuesday 26th September – Change of State Rhode Island to Massachusetts

September 26, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we packed up and set off for Massachusetts, Falmouth to be precise, it was really thick fog again this

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Monday 25th September – Around Newport

September 25, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we continued to explore Newport and started by walking along the cliff path which seems to have been around

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Sunday 24th September – Pawtucket and Providence

September 25, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we went to Pawtucket which actually means waterfall in Narragansett and is one of only two Rhode Island cities

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Saturday 23rd September – The Newport mansions Rhode Island

September 23, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Today we left Mystic for Newport or Middletown actually but as it is only about a mile away it probably

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Friday 22nd September – Mystic and the Sea Port

September 22, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

Mystic was a leading seaport on the Mystic river which flows into Long Island sound providing access to the sea,

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Thursday 21st September – State Capitol, Wethersfield and onto Mystic

September 21, 2017 Xanthe New England 2017

We didn’t have to check out until lunch time so we decided to go for a walk around Hartford as

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