Not a particularly long post today as not really much was done! Most of the day was spent driving and so not very interesting to write about, even though it was a wonderful drive. So today we started with a coffee over the road from the Motel and headed back to the route 100 South towards Brattleboro right at the southern end of Vermont, we took a slightly unplanned route along the Interstate 91 which gave us the perfect opportunity to see the landscape begin to flatten. Along the way we passed about three different summer camps, mostly around lakes (still frozen!).
Brattleboro was a beautiful little town with several pretty churches and lots of posh gift shops. We had lunch at the Riverview Cafe, right next to the, well River, S had the burger and chips and M had the clam chowder, both of which were as good as the view.
We then headed back to the I91 and headed out of Vermont and into Massachusetts and then out again into Connecticut to the town of Hartford. We found a really good value out of town Motel (a chain called Super 8, recommended if you ever come) and then headed in towards town to go to Mark Twain's house, mostly as it was something to do but actually turned out to be quite interesting. The house itself is stunning and the tour was very informative.
We have now had an evening off, M didn't fancy driving into the middle of a city so we opted for take-out delivery and watched some films and played computer games (I like to excuse it as an evening trying to recreate a traditional evening in the lives of the locals)!!
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