Driving in Rhode Island!

Aug 22

Arrived in Plymouth on Wednesday evening after a 'lovely' journey through Boston at rush hour! Not to be recommended! Hotel room extremely comfy, even have steps to reach the bed it's so high! David thinks it amusing that about 150yds away there's a massage parlour, but I do try to think of everything for him......

Plymouth MA is very unlike Plymouth, Devon. It is the largest town around the coast but the population is somewhere in the region of 56k wheresas Plymouth in the UK is in excess of 300k. The portico surrounding Plymouth Rock is undergoing renovation so it can only be seen through a window and through the surrounding scaffolding! Heigh ho...

Salem is a beautiful little town. The Witch Museum is well worth the visit and the entrance fee is just $8 each. The show is well done and the guides are very knowledgeable. The trolley tour costs $10 each; the tickets are valid all day, hop on hop off, but the best bit is that it is narrated so you learn about the town as you go, great. We had a fab driver, Kevin. Witty and dry humour which made the tour all the more entertaining.

Then, there's Providence RI..... lunatic drivers would be the understatement of both this and the last century! They make New York look like a walk in the park! The road system is completely indecipherable and we have GPS!! Horns honking, weaving in and out without any signals... the list goes on and on. We came, we saw, we LEFT in a hurry. Can't say we'll be going back any time soon.

Decided that we've simply run out of time on this trip so, looks like Boston itself will have to wait for another visit. We still have venues to explore here and we'd like a day to really chill before (yes, that dreaded time has come) we fly back to the grind of everyday living. Plimouth Plantation looks good and they re-enact the times that the Pilgrim Fathers arrived and the Mayflower II also has to be visited, so that's our last day planned out... so far....