If you fancy an introductory, or short, road trip in the United States, then heading out to The Hamptons on Long Island is a great option. From the north fork of Long Island, you can catch a ferry to Connecticut from where ‘the world (or New England) is your oyster’ and you can keep...
Long Island is often thought of as a summer playground for wealthy urbanites from New York and, being so close to the city, it’s easy to understand why this might have become the case. Today, it’s not just New Yorkers who flood here ‘to summer’ on beautiful Long Island beaches and hang...
On a short road trip from Long Island, New York, to New England states, we arrived in Connecticut on the Cross Sound Ferry from Long Island. We spent the day in Mystic before carrying on to our next overnight location in Newport, Rhode Island. Mystic, Connecticut turned out to be a...
The Great Gatsby novel and films were my introduction to the Gilded Age of America and the incredible wealth which arose from the heavy industry and development of the railroads in the late 19th century. On our Road Trip from Long Island to New England, we were keen to visit the Newport...
On our road trip from Long Island to New England (and back) had the option of returning along coastal Connecticut from Rhode Island (RI), or to travel back on an inland route via The Berkshires. For maximum variety, and with the pull of visiting the Norman Rockwell Museum we decided to...