The weather forecast today threatened frequent heavy showers and possibly thunderstorms yet it was also too warm for heavy clothes so an umbrella was bought and we decided spending the morning exploring the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was a way to stay dry initially. The Museum was a treat with some fascinating special exhibitions we enjoyed including Hippie Chic which featured 60s fashions we both remembered and a juke box that Dave complained was playing songs f...

Sunday was a travel day and our last experience of driving on the wrong side of the road. We had a light breakfast and chatted with our host Marie between packing and tidying. It had felt quite a privilege to share her quirky collections for a few days and without any breakages. We said our goodbyes and off we went into the traffic which wasn't heavy at first but did build up towards Boston. In fact, the driving started to demand more concentration after a lunc...

We decided that following our dismal lighthouse viewing of yesterday that we should make amends today so headed off to Nauset Beach Light where we knew we could get four (or more accurately two) lighthouses for our efforts. Nauset Beach Light is the currently functioning lighthouse but just half a mile inland are the Three Sisters Lighthouses that used together to form the lighthouse operating at Nauset Beach. This was in the days before unique flashing patterns ...

You might have thought that we would have had enough of whale watching by now but it seems not: maybe it's like the scratch card gamblers we've just been watching at South Station in Boston whilst waiting to board our train to New York (yes, we're using a train journey to catch up on blog writing again) - activity reinforced by random reward? So Friday saw us heading off to the far tip of Cape Cod to take the Dolphin Fleet whale watching tour from Provincetown. ...

Another lovely day here in Paradise: we are soooooo lucky! We had a relaxing morning enjoying the sunshine on the beautiful white sandy beach at South Cape Beach, a State Park. We're not sure if there was no Ranger there because of the USA Government budget problems or whether now that we are in October and therefore out-of-season the State Park is not manned. We had heard that State Park Offices would be closed because of the Government's inability to agree a bu...