Sand, Schmaltz and the Beach That Never Ends
Travelling is tough. It requires a clear vision, a sharp mind and the ability to make decisions. You need to make decisions all the time. Should we eat in or should we eat out?...
Tagged: New England
Popham Beach Gallery
Ten days gave us plenty of opportunity to appreciate the varied but always spectacular moods of Popham Beach. Healthy breakers lapping the shore, islands you can walk to, sturdy lighthouses in the distance and...
Impressions of Maine
Lighthouses, lobster shacks, blueberries and clam chowder. That’s Maine, right? Not so. For me, the irresistible draw of travel is exactly that: the way in which the real place is always both more and less than...
Northern Maine Gallery
Our New England meanderings included two separate stints in Maine. For the first and northernmost of these, we stayed in a small lobster fishing village called Corea. We chose this location to be close to Acadia...
New England Leaves Gallery
Tired of waterfalls? Tired of black beaches? Wanna see some leaves? Here we go…
Feeling Lucky in Small Town America
Although we had planned to head north from Boston, a pleasant coincidence had us heading west instead. My cousin Grant and his wife Judith were visiting their daughter Catherine in the small college town...
Boston Gallery
On the surface Boston offers a fairly standard mix of big-city pleasures: history, culture, art, shopping and food. But there must be some elusive quality, because, despite its unpredictable weather and scary drivers, Boston...
Art Escapades, Jabba the Hutt and the Beantown Nutter
My wife has many talents but a sense of direction is not one of them. I don’t blame her of course – the ability to get lost whilst continuously rotating a map with increasing...
