Harborside Inn
Travel Blogs from Edgartown
The Roosevelts
Today started with a trip to a the beach and a look at the location of the summer house. The beach walk was plagued by rain but it was certainly refreshing. At the summer house we ran into a neighbour and his dog Bucky a Black Labrador Retriever. They later came to dinner and we found out Bucky is a certified therapy dog. He visits hospitals and nursing homes to meet ...
A whale of a time
Today we went over to the Roosevelt's summer house so we could walk along the beach. Haven said that even though they were lucky and didn't really get hit by the hurricane, there was a lot of sand movement (they have dunes which didn't exist before) and quite alot of plant life had been blown away! It was a nice walk though, very calming. Becky and I have had a great time here. It's so nice to step out of the hectic city life and be able to go for walks in the woods or on the ...
The Roosevets
... girls were getting on the Taunton/New Bedford bus! Most of America has re-used British place names, but more so here than anywhere else I've been so far...then again, we are in New England! Now for a bit of a history recap--Our scholarship is called the Nottingham Roosevelt Traveling Memorial Scholarship and was first set up after WWII. The mayor of ...
A week of peace and quiet
... the summer. The town has constructed a Cliff Walk which winds its way 3 miles or so on a path on the cliff edge so you can see into the back gardens - at least the ones that haven't constructed walls, fences and hedges to stop one doing just that. Many of them are now run by a Preservation Society so we went into 'Breakers' the Vanderbilt house and probably the grandest of them all. 20 bathrooms, every bath equipped with ...
19. September 2012
Gegen 10 Uhr aufgestanden und im Hotel gefrühstückt. Zuerst zum Sea Gull Beach gefahren und dort Fotos und Muscheln gesammelt. Dann weiter zum Chapin Memorial Beach gefahren, danach noch versucht zum Ellis Landing Beach zu kommen, aber da ...