Every year, and for the last 20+ years, Sara and I meet for a shopping-in-Boston girlfriend getaway. She drives up from Philly. I tool up from Connecticut. And we spend three days popping into the stores on Newbury Street, from one end to another, with forays to Charles Street, Beacon …
WHY GO: Marblehead Massachusetts, 30 minutes north of Boston, is one of those New England seafaring towns that locals like to keep secret. Deeply hued Colonial era homes, most built in the early 1700’s – 1800’s, line narrow streets filled with shops, restaurants, and historic sites. You don’t come to …
All About Harbor Light Inn Marblehead MA Even the name promotes a feeling of tranquility and comfort: Harbor Light Inn Marblehead MA. A light in the storm. A safe harbor. There is no better – or other – place to stay in Marblehead’s historic district. Speaking even more romantically, it’s …
WHY GO: Amherst MA and its environs hums with writers, poets, illustrators, and one astounding book sanctuary. The “Belle of Amherst,” poet Emily Dickinson, is most associated with this small college town in Western Mass. (“The Other Side of Massachusetts”). But she’s not the only author or illustrator who once …
WHY GO: There are things to do in Bryn Athyn PA that you can’t do anywhere else, including a tour of one of the only privately built cathedrals in the United States. A Pennsylvania Rags to Riches Captain of Industry, John Pitcairn, founded a whole new religious branch of Christianity …
Three miles removed from the madness of downtown, the Castle Hill Inn Newport RI (not to be confused with the Castle Hill Resort and Spa in Ludlow VT) sits on headlands overlooking Narragansett Bay three miles from downtown Newport Rhode Island. This location makes it the perfect romantic, splurgy getaway …
If you wish to commune with the ghosts of literary wits from the “roaring” 20’s, there’s no better place than at the newly renovated Algonquin Hotel Times Square, Autograph Collection, in midtown Manhattan. First opened in 1902, The Algonquin is the oldest continuously operating hotel in New York City. With …
How did we narrow the list of Romantic Hotels in NYC to just a handful? Well, obviously, this is nowhere near exhaustive. There are over 500 hotels in New York City. And, of course, many, even the chain hotels, can be romantic by virtue of location, location, location. It was …
WHY GO: Do you ever wonder how you can take advantage of all the great things to do at the Lake Naomi Club in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania? Well, one way is to own a house there. What? You don’t have a lake house? Well, there’s another way. …
WHY GO: Cars are not allowed on most of Fire Island, the slip of land where Mel Brooks, Tina Fey, and John Lennon summered and where Maurice Sendak wrote: “Where the Wild Things Are.” Thirty-one miles long and just 1,300 ft. wide, this barrier island, 26 miles of which consists …