Summer travel in New England and beyond
Last summer we spent 4 nights on Amalfi coast of Italy and it was as strikingly scenic as we have imagined it (it was also very crowded– but more about that later). I have been dreaming about visiting Amalfi coast (Unesco World Heritage Site) for a long time but was uncomfortable with the idea of …
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Tanglewood music center in Massachusetts Berkshires has been part of our summer weekends for over 10 years now. This is as long as our younger kid Viv can remember! We love everything about Tanglewood – diverse summer programming, that you can dress up or down, that you can enjoy the concerts while relaxing at the …
TANGLEWOOD SUMMER 2023: check out full List of Summer 2023 PERFORMANCES. Attending a Tanglewood concert is our family’s beloved summer tradition! Tanglewood, (in its 85th season in the summer of 2023), is summer home of Boston Symphony Orchestra and a center for advanced musical studies that welcomes nation’s leading young artists every summer to train …
Boston is surrounded by natural beauty – there are lakes, mountains and/or the Ocean- practically in all directions; so it is a perfect starting point for weekend roadtrips. Here are our favorite tried and true summer weekend destinations from Boston: NORTH OF BOSTON DAYTRIP A DAY trip might be the best weekend choice for many …
UPDATED (scroll down for new 2021 Cabbage Island Lobster Clambake experiences! For our couple’s weekend escape last summer we went on a 3-day Coastal Maine roadtrip in search of best coastal views and lobsters. Here is our 3-day Coastal Maine Itinerary (aka lobster crawl) as told in LOBSTER stops. We did this trip over a …
With over 150 islands to choose from, planning your first Greek islands vacation could be overwhelming. I planned our own first Greek islands vacation not too long ago and am happy to share the considerations that were part of our planning process. When choosing the Greek islands for our first Greek islands vacation, I weighed …
Our followers must know by now that our summer is not complete without a visit to the Berkshires – a mountainous region in Western Massachusetts (about 2.5-hour drive from our suburb south of Boston) with plenty of beautiful nature to see in any season. Our favorite time to visit is summer because it is the …
A day trip to Martha’s Vineyard is one of our many New England summer traditions. For one of our recent day trips we booked our car to go on a ferry with us (about a week ahead, for a mid-week August trip- scroll down for all transportation options to get to the island). Martha Vineyard …
I was desperately looking for ideas for one more family summer weekend together before my son was due to head back to his college campus and Stowe Vermont came to mind. Our family weekend this summer was originally supposed to happen in Rome, Italy (and when I say “weekend” I mean weekend– as we literally …
Cape Cod peninsula, which extends into Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern Massachusetts, offers some 600 miles of coastline. There are over a hundred beaches – with dramatically diverse scenery, water and sand features. We are lucky to live less than 90-minute drive away from Cape Cod and are visiting often this summer. It is about …