More sunshine which we were particularly glad of today as we took the high-speed ferry from nearby Hyannis to the famous island of Nantucket. Jill does not like being indoors on boat trips so the warm sun meant we were comfortable on deck for the fast crossing. An hour, a coffee and a muffin later and we were coasting into photogenic Nantucket Harbour. To do Nantucket justice probably requires an overnight stop and some form of transport other than our walking s...

More sunshine and shorts today. We'd had enough of spending too much time in the hire car (the Kia's got no Soul despite its name, although it does have Satellite Radio, as had the previous hire car, and we can get soul on that) so we headed off to a relatively nearby bit of coast near Falmouth on the south-east end of Cape Cod. The information about walking and trails on Cape Cod is a bit limited but we were delighted with our discovery of Quissett Harbor and th...

Today was forecast to be cloudy but with temperatures in the high 60s so shorts it was. We followed the main road west along the southern edge of Cape Cod towards the elbow and the small town of Chatham as we'd discovered a promising walking trail here and there was a lighthouse too! Driving was slow going as we seem to have found the one place in New England where people actually drive below the speed limits! By the time we got to Chatham we were ready for lunc...

Sunday was another fine day but as a travel day we had little chance to appreciate the continuing good weather. Packing was a quick job as we'd lived out of our bags and cases in the main here. We gave the cabin a clean, Dave made sure the wood supply was topped up for whoever came next and Jill made sandwiches for en route, then we were off. The roads south got increasingly busy and we needed to stop for fuel. We pulled off at Concord where bizarrely the two pe...