DESTINATIONS — THE US
Federal Hill, Providence
popping into the independent boutiques lining Hope Street. Best of all, Providence finally has a stylish boutique hotel worthy of its design credentials in the shape of The Dean. Find out more:
goprovidence.com
Newport harbour
International Tennis Hall of Fame, Rhode Island
l JOIN THE SMART SET IN NEWPORT A major 18th-century port, Newport today contains the highest concentration of surviving colonial buildings of any city in the US and is very much the archetypal wealthy Rhode Island harbour town. By the turn of the 20th century, America’s wealthiest families – the Vanderbilts, the Astors and the Wideners – were ‘summering’ in Newport (only the super-rich use ‘summer’ as a verb) in vast houses coyly called ‘summer cottages’. Today many of these mansions – The Breakers, Miramar and Rosecliff – are preserved by a heritage foundation that runs tours for £14 (newportmansions. org). Most straddle the lovely clifftop path and Newport’s most exclusive street, Bellevue Avenue, and can easily be explored on foot or by bicycle. To amp it up a little, take a coastal helicopter tour with Birds Eye View Helicopters, from £50, or sip craft beers aboard the Gansett, from £16, while gazing at Jacqueline Kennedy’s childhood home, Hammersmith Farm.
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As well as being the swankiest sailing capital of the US, Newport is famous for golf and tennis: the first ever US Open took place here at the Newport Casino, and today the freshly revamped International Tennis Hall of Fame museum is well worth a wander. If you’re feeling active, book a court there, from £50, and have a knockabout on the grass courts where legends like Billie Jean King, John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Chris Evert have stood. Afterwards tuck into clam chowder and a lobster roll at La Forge bistro, overlooking the courts. As you’d imagine, Newport is positively
brimming with chi-chi resortwear boutiques and high- end sportswear stores
(Lululemon is staging a summer pop-up) as well as great hotel and dining options. For a splurge, Mainsail restaurant in the beautifully renovated Marriott is your best bet, but you get the same glorious waterfront views from Newport Lobster Shack, a deservedly famous fishermen’s cooperative and cult eatery. Find out more:
discovernewport.org
l PARTY ON IN PROVINCETOWN Provincetown, Massachusetts, on the very tip of Cape Cod, has always attracted creatives and eccentrics along with regular holidaymakers. The writers
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