Yesterday for the first time since we arrived we did very little. We have been tramping city streets, riding subways or travelling every day so yesterday we took the hire car a bit along the coast as far as Mystic. This coastal area is one big,if extremely pretty, suburb of wooden houses mostly set among trees on fenceless plots. Think of The Ice Storm or numberless films and TV shows, cars purring by at the 25mph speed limit. The best places like this one sit on rocky headlands facing the sea, others line the endless quiet streets.There are a few beaches but not many and large areas of flat marshland. Offshore are hundreds of rocky outcrops some with large houses perched on them. Our hosts told us or one that was barged out and slid onto the prepared base. Fine and dandy in the glorious weather we have at present less good in a storm. Hurricane Sandy led to 20 houses nearby having their foundations eroded away. Today we will go into nearby New Haven to visit Yale Universities art galleries and then set off across New England up to Portsmouth, New Hampshire where we meet Tessa,s sister Sue and husband Paul who have driven down from Montreal. Weather continues to be marvellous, from our bed we can see that the Sound is so still it could have been painted. Brian and Tess
No comments:
Post a Comment