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Some nice photos from Salem and the memorial was quite interesting! I saw on the memorial that some of the accused witches were hanged and one was pressed! Not sure if I want to know the details of the latter! The marina of Salem was definitely a good thing to do as you got to experience another side of Salem!
Nice tour of the USS Albacore but not sure if I would want to sleep in cramped quarters like that! I think I could be on there for a couple of hours and want to go to the outside world. Not exactly a cure for claustraphopia
Some nice historic homes you got to visit in Portsmouth. Love all the details you provided with the photos and some good history!
A nice dinner with Sheila and Mike, but too bad some of the food was a bit off. Some places serve fried calamari with a spicy marinara sauce (fra diavolo), which you probably had and others with a standard marinara sauce. I guess next time you have it you can just ask to have yours with the mild version! I like both!
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Some nice photos from Salem and the memorial was quite interesting! I saw on the memorial that some of the accused witches were hanged and one was pressed! Not sure if I want to know the details of the latter!
Neither do I!
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The marina of Salem was definitely a good thing to do as you got to experience another side of Salem!
Nice tour of the USS Albacore but not sure if I would want to sleep in cramped quarters like that! I think I could be on there for a couple of hours and want to go to the outside world. Not exactly a cure for claustraphopia
Oh gosh no!
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Some nice historic homes you got to visit in Portsmouth. Love all the details you provided with the photos and some good history!
I always like to try and give as much detail as I can...
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A nice dinner with Sheila and Mike, but too bad some of the food was a bit off. Some places serve fried calamari with a spicy marinara sauce (fra diavolo), which you probably had and others with a standard marinara sauce. I guess next time you have it you can just ask to have yours with the mild version! I like both!
Good point - I assumed it was always the standard marinara sauce served, but evidently not...
Friday 25 September – part one: another day, another state
I slept really well, but unfortunately I was still awake early at 5:00am. I tried to go back to sleep, but gave up half an hour later and got up.
As we were getting ready, we saw some amazing shots of the sunrise on the local news channel, so I looked outside and saw that the sky was lightening, and looked beautiful, so I nipped out to get some photos. They weren’t as impressive as I was hoping, but it was still lovely out there.
We headed downstairs for breakfast just before 7:00am, and it was surprisingly quiet in there. I thought it was a very small breakfast area, given the size of the hotel, but it was fine. I thought the selection was pretty impressive…
Mark told me I could have waffles…
… but frankly I was too scared to use it, so I left it to him, and he did a pretty good job. With that, and some fresh fruit, I was done…
It’s just as well, as their idea of scrambled eggs was a little odd…
We headed out just after 8:00am, and I figured we had time to cross the state line into Maine, so we headed out that way…
We headed along some very British looking streets…
… found the Naval yard…
… and ended up on a side road, where we had a lovely view of a creek, and this lobster place…
I was taking photos further up, but Mark told me he’d seen a lobster scurry under a brick, which was pretty neat!
We drove a little further along, and came across this…
We decided to keep driving, hoping we’d find our way down to the sea, and in the end, we did, and found Kittery Beach. Isn’t this just beautiful?
Once we were done being blown around (can you tell it was windy in those shots? ), we set off again, seeing more lovely properties…
… and a little bit of colour in the leaves.
We also came across a little bit of work to the road – Mark commented that this looked like snow on the road, but we think it was salt.
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What a lovely area! And beautiful photos as always!
We usually stay at a Fairfield Inn when we visit my brother in West Virginia and always enjoy the breakfast offerings.
I'm sure that breakfast area is jam-packed around 9am, with a line for the waffle maker.
The coastal pictures are beautiful. Maine has been on our list of places to visit for a long time.... really want to see it now! I love how you have on your Alaska jacket - in Maine!! The two extreme US states.
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I was doing a home visit for work and using my GPS. I had to go through a "roundabout" I guess the local terms aren't used. I am used to traffic circle and rotary. It was fine and Saturday afternoon in Boscowen, NH so no others cars in the rotary.
I am curious what city center you are off to see. I know you like capitols so could it be Concord? or Maine's largest city "Portland" both of which are lovely. You've been to Portsmouth's downtown and I didn't think Kittery had one.
I'm sure that breakfast area is jam-packed around 9am, with a line for the waffle maker.
Oh boy, I dread to think....
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The coastal pictures are beautiful. Maine has been on our list of places to visit for a long time.... really want to see it now! I love how you have on your Alaska jacket - in Maine!! The two extreme US states.
You know what - that hadn't even occurred to me! I was just wearing it as a) I had it with me and b) it seemed appropriate for the weather...
I was doing a home visit for work and using my GPS. I had to go through a "roundabout" I guess the local terms aren't used. I am used to traffic circle and rotary. It was fine and Saturday afternoon in Boscowen, NH so no others cars in the rotary.
That's too funny - the way you said it was fine with no other cars in the rotary. We have a mini-roundabout at the end of our road and a massive roundabout at the other end. If only I could regularly find those with no other cars!
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I am curious what city center you are off to see. I know you like capitols so could it be Concord? or Maine's largest city "Portland" both of which are lovely. You've been to Portsmouth's downtown and I didn't think Kittery had one.
Hmmm.... well I'm using "city centre" in the loosest sense of the word - it's what the GPS was supposed to be finding for us....
Sounds like a great time at Strawberry Banke. We really enjoyed how different time periods were represented. Do they still have the cat? I can't remember the cat's name, but there was a black cat that decided to make Strawberry Banke its home. When we were visiting, there were several stuffed black cats located around the property. It was a game, kids had a sheet to mark off the locations and at the end there was some small prize. I really enjoyed the story of the (real) cat, and DS was young enough that the hunt was a nice addition.
I hope you didn't trust the GPS. Overall, I find them good for guidance, not much more.
Let's just say over here, we 100% trust it. It's very rare (touch wood!) we go wrong with them, although if we see signs as we get close to a destination, we always follow those instead. However, in the States, it can be a little more erratic, shall I say?
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Not sure if I want to know the details of the latter! 
The marina of Salem was definitely a good thing to do as you got to experience another side of Salem! 
I think I could be on there for a couple of hours and want to go to the outside world. Not exactly a cure for claustraphopia 
Some places serve fried calamari with a spicy marinara sauce (fra diavolo), which you probably had and others with a standard marinara sauce. I guess next time you have it you can just ask to have yours with the mild version! 
I was just wearing it as a) I had it with me and b) it seemed appropriate for the weather...
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