Trips and travel, nearby and long distance
Spending a weekend of culture and nature in the Massachusetts Berkshires is our longstanding family summer tradition. We keep coming back every summer (with friends and kids who are now teens) and sharing our trips with you. Here is our recent three day-two night trip itinerary so you can follow along for your own Summer […]
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Attending Tanglewood concert (summer home of Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops) has been a central part of our summer Berkshires weekend with family and friends for many years. (see my article with all the tips on visiting Tanglewood with family). There is so much diverse musical programming delivered by some of the world’s greatest
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We spend many summer weekends on Cape Cod enjoying its beautiful beaches. In the fall we don’t get to visit as often, but we look forward to getting off the beach chairs to follow our favorite biking path to the National Seashore and to engage in our other Cape Cod favorite fall activities. Another advantage
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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
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TANGLEWOOD SUMMER 2026: check out full List of Summer 2026 PERFORMANCES. Attending a Tanglewood concert is our family’s beloved summer tradition! Tanglewood, (in its 88th season in the summer of 2026), is summer home of Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops and a center for advanced musical studies that welcomes nation’s leading young artists
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Island of Nantucket, some 30 miles off the Southern coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is a popular summer destination (when its population grows to 80,000). Over the years, we have come to love our 3-season day trips to Martha’s Vineyard (another island off the coast of Cape Cod), but we have a lot of catching
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Update: We have recently enjoyed a 2-day stopover in Iceland where we visited a new nature spa Hvammsvik. See my 1-minute video report here. This is now our favorite of all Iceland spas. The natural setting right on the beach is amazing and there are a variety of pools with different water temperatures. There are
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For our Maine summer weekend roadtrips we are always looking for best 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 (long) weekend (2 nights, 3 days) but you could of course extend any part of the trip and easily
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When I was looking for a “replacement” weekend during a covid summer a couple of years ago, Stowe, Vermont was a great choice. Our family weekend that summer was originally supposed to happen in Rome, Italy (and when I say “weekend” I mean weekend– as we literally only had a long weekend for the four
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We first discovered Sarasota, Florida in May of 2020, after 10 weeks of quarantine in our Massachusetts home, after we drove for 22 hours straight to get a little bit of sun and fresh air. We enjoyed it so much, we have since returned several times (it is now our favorite area for Florida vacations!).
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