I have a long-standing love affair with the United States, having grown up on a regular diet of American TV shows and films as a child in the 1970s and 80s. As a result, we have visited quite a lot as a family, discovering great variety across the States, and checking out its iconic...
When planning our first visit to Boston, it felt essential to include a Fenway Park visit to watch the Red Sox play. We had previously enjoyed a couple of baseball games on trips to Seattle and Toronto, so were keen to experience a game in the oldest baseball park in the US. This blog is...
Salem, Massachusetts, was put on the map by the Salem Witch Trials, a dark moment in history when innocent people were accused of witchcraft. Today, the city is home to pagan Witches, and capitalises on a wave of Witch tourism popularised by movies like Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic...
On a short road trip from Boston, Massachusetts, we headed north along the coast passing (briefly) through the bottom section of New Hampshire, and into the state of Maine. As the main purpose of our road trip was to go ‘leaf peeping’ then we only travelled as far as Scarborough in Maine...
On a road trip through New England in Fall, we definitely wanted to pass through New Hampshire. My first introduction to the state was via the John Irving novel The Hotel New Hampshire, and subsequent 1984 film starring Rob Lowe and Jodie Foster. More recently, a friend travelled on the...
Continuing our fall foliage adventures in New Hampshire, we drove from North Conway to the base of Mount Washington for a driving experience not to forget on the Mount Washington Auto Road. We had been warned that the drive was not for the faint hearted, and indeed we held our breath for...