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state capital, with its history,
shopping and restaurants galore.
Finally, in Massachusetts, stop
in Plymouth for a reminder of
how New England settlers fared.
You will appreciate how cramped
the Pilgrim Fathers’ Mayfl ower II
was and understand how hard life
Stay at the posh 100-year- was in the 1620s at the Plimoth
WARREN TO STOCKBRIDGE Stowe. Down at the mouth of old mansion, Vanderbilt Plantation living history museum.
150 miles
the Connecticut River, fi nd out Hall. 001 (401) 846 6200;
➔ Drive south along Route 7, with about the American Impressionist www.vanderbilthall.com
attractive Vermont towns along movement in the Old Lyme
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the way, such as Manchester (for art colony; shop till you drop at NEWPORT TO BOSTON
Find more New England drives,
outlet shopping and Hildene, the Clinton Crossing Premium Outlets’
100 miles
themed on maritime heritage and
grand home of Abraham Lincoln’s 70 classy stores. ➔ Return to Boston via
food, family fun and movies, on
son) and Bennington (known Stay in charming Old Providence, the Rhode Island
www.discovernewengland.co.uk
for its working pottery and art Saybrook at the Saybrook
gallery). Once into Massachusetts, Point Inn with its award-winning
the Green Mountains become the spa. 001 (860) 395 2000;
Berkshire Hills (the Burk-sheers), www.saybrook.com
with long-established summer
resorts. Visit Williamstown, OLD SAYBROOK TO NEWPORT
with its college and art galleries;
75 miles
Lenox, where Tanglewood hosts ➔ Now follow the coast road
the Boston Symphony Orchestra east, stopping to eat lobster ‘in
during the summer months. the rough’ at outdoor tables in
Stay at the Red Lion in Niantic, Noank and Stonington,
Stockbridge, an 18th- watching craftsmen and women
century coaching inn with rocking at work in the cleverly-recreated
chairs on the porch. It overlooks old port of Mystic, and, inland,
Main Street, immortalised learning about the local tribal
by painter Norman Rockwell, nation at their award-winning
whose museum is nearby. Mashantucket Pequot Museum.
001 (413) 298 5545; Once into Rhode Island, South
www.redlioninn.com County offers a series of delightful
beaches and resorts. Take a ferry
STOCKBRIDGE TO OLD to Block Island; watch surfers in
SAYBROOK
Narragansett; soar over Newport
115 miles
Bridge to arrive in Newport,
➔ Drive west to Springfi eld, with where the Gilded Age mansions
its basketball-shaped Basketball provide a glimpse of the Upstairs,
Hall of Fame and connections with Downstairs life of America’s
Dr Seuss; cross into Connecticut, industrial barons. As well as
and in Hartford, tour the former elegant dining, Newport has a
homes of two literary giants: grand yachting tradition and the
Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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