New England in the Fall

[PeckhamRose]

If any of you have recommendations of places we absolutely must see on our two week road trip around new England we would be very grateful to hear them!

Also, reasonably priced hotels too. And to start with, any in Boston? We start and end there. Well, we start and end here obviously but are flying into and out of Boston! We are sadly unable to fund a budget to do wonderful American B&Bs so budget smaller places will be preferable.

Thanks!

[Alan Medic]

http://www.couchsurfing.org/

Someone I used to work with actually did this. A free option.

[PeckhamRose]

Thanks, but just asking for people from here who might have fave recommendations of places they have been to. :D

[Sayroo]

Stockbridge is worth the journey - north east of Boston. It's v like the little town featured on the old channel four programme Northern Exposure. Home to Norman Rockwell museum - definitely worthwhile if you have a hankering for nostalgia. His exhibition toured to Dulwich Picture Gallery last year.

Salem is a bit too touristy - witchery toot everywhere. Though they probably go all out for Halloween which may be an eye opener...

[INMCD]

We went to New England in the Summer and stayed at the Howard Johnson in Boston I think (it was 9 years ago now!). We really enjoyed going out to Harvard - good bars and great people watching! Maine and Vermont are beautiful - very American and great people. We've got some friends who live near Portland (house next to the ocean!)- really lovely place. If you're bringing children then a day at the Ben & Jerry's factory will keep them happy. Enjoy x

[Alan Medic]

I can't help but feel if you put 'Autumn' in your title you would get more responses.

[PeckhamRose]

I had a lot of private message responses! x

[Alan Medic]

Okay. I guess I just don't like Americanising things if it's not necessary.

[Lozellen]

I used to live in the states and spend a couple of summers in the white mountains in New Hampshire, and Stowe in Vermont. Both places less about the towns, but incredible hiking. Cape Cod is lovely too and very accessible from Boston. It feels almost like an American version of Cornwall. We were working so were put up so not sure on prices but the holiday houses at Stoweflake and the Green Mountain Inn are gorgeous. There is an Inn in Stowe whose owners are British called 'ye old england Inn' I think... Very hospitable and would probably love to see a couple of British faces for dinner. Magic Hat brewery in Burlington is fun, long trail brewery is on my dream list too as well as hiking the long trail. But I'm pretty much obsessed by microbrews.

[Alex K]

When you get into Boston, you'll have a chance to assess where the colour is best -- north into Vermont, early in the season; west into Massachusetts, ditto; or, later, when only the tans and browns of beeches and oaks persist in the north and west, down into Rhode Island and along the Connecticut shore for the purple of sumac and liquidambar / sweet-gum, red of maple, golden of maple and ash. Choose your destinations accordingly, I suppose, and say hello to The Elms at Newport for me.

[KidKruger]

An excursion on Lake Champlain from Burlington may be good for taking-in the fall colours. But you'll cop the colours driving up from Boston anyway. Woodstock, NH, is a quaint little village and one motel across from the big posh restaurant still has vibrating beds, if you shell out the 25c. Stowe, White Mountains, visit the campsites, they're always in the woods.

[PeckhamRose]

Hey, thsnks so much EDF folk for your advice. Looks like we have slightly mistimed as the colours have not changed down south but as we have drivennorth they are turning slowly. Cape Cod was so astoundinly lovely and now we are in Stockbridge and seeing the Norman Rockwell museum tomorrow having met a man who knew him or szys he did.. And the original Alice'sRestaurant place too that Arlo Guthrie wrote about. Am having a grat time!

Sorry for mistakes had a large margarita at the Red Lion in Stockbridge. Treat this as your postcard.