For Everyone -

We are on our last night in USA (we are currently in New York)
We start the long slog home tomorrow!
When I get home to Darwin, I will finish off the blog - not many hotels on the east side have free internet, and if they do, it is in a small, noisy area & I don't like to do my updates there.
Also, a lot of the time, we were so busy (& tired), we just didn't get a chance!)

Just for Julian

Hi Julian!
When Grandma & Grandpa were in Boston, we went for a walk in the public gardens and found these -

Grandma and Grandpa found a postcard of the ducks, which we have sent to you!

Grandma also had her photo taken with the ducks -

Now ask Mummy and Daddy to look for a book called - "Make way for ducklings"

Love Grandma and Grandpa
xxxx

Montreal

Our next stop was the city of Montreal.
We arrived at lunch time -

Where Phil & I had lunch (sitting outside, of course!)

We then had a city tour of Montreal, visiting the Notre Dame Basilica  -

Here we were fortunate to be able to hear the magnificent organ being played -

We continued our tour, ending with a scenic stop of the city-

We were given free time after this, so we headed of and explored the 'underground city' of Montreal.

Below the streets of Montreal, there are hundreds of shops, all linked together, so that in the winter, you don't have to go above ground. If you are not careful here, you can easily get lost!



Quebec City

The first city of our  tour was Quebec. We passed through the Franconia Notch area first,

Then through Vermont, where we had lunch -

before arriving at Quebec City.

The view from our room was fantastic -

The next morning we had a city tour, then we had free time to wander the city -

The "old city" of Quebec

The finnucular going up from the old city.                   Inside the Notre Dame Cathedral in Quebec City.

For our dinner outing, we stopped at the Montmorency Falls -

before going to our meal at restaurant on Ile d'Orleans (an island in the St Lawrence River.)

Boston - the start of our next tour!

Our first night in Boston we went to the restaurant attached to our hotel, which had a lovely pub area (reminisant of "Cheers") -

We had a delightful meal here (and went back the next night, we enjoyed it so much!)

In the morning we did a city tour and harbour cruise of Boston - unfortunately is was a rainy day -

but we consoled ourselves afterwards by visiting both the Modern Bakery (where we had cannollis and coffee)

and then Mike's Bakery! (where we got some take-away cannollis!!) -

Yummy!!!

Our last days in New Hampshire........

On the last Sunday with Di & Andy we did a river cruise at Portsmouth. We were fortunate that it was a lovely day.

After our cruise we then went to a place called Stonewall Kitchens where you can test taste their products before buying - there was some very yummy stuff! We then took some pictures outside of the shop -

We then went out for dinner in Portsmouth - what a lovely way to finish our stay with Di & Andy! (who looked after us wonderfully - made sure we got out and saw the sights!) We will miss them terribly - we will have to save up and come visit again! Thank you Di & Andy!! xxxx

The next afternoon we moved into Boston.

Back on line!

Hi everyone!
Unfortunately the only free access we have had to the internet meant we had to sit in the lobby of the hotels - and some of those lobbies have had only a few chairs, are extremely busy and are very noisy - so I have waited until now to do some updates!