CONNECTICUT/CABARET ADVENTURE

We enjoyed a 4 day driving adventure through, into, and around Connecticut.

We picked up our rent car around noon on 34th between 8th & 9th.  That's the way we now get a car.  We drove straight along the Connecticut coast line with a destination of Mystic, CT.  Along the way we made two diversions, Greenwich and New Haven.

Greenwich is right at the New York/Connecticut line and is a very pretty city.  Our second diversion was into New Haven so we could see Yale University.  As you can imagine, Yale is impressive and beautiful.

Our destination was the Inn at Stonington which is in the Village of Stonington in the area known as Mystic, CT.

www.innatstonington.com

The Inn is beautiful, looks quite old, but is, in fact, only several years old.  Behind the Inn is a restaurant named Swooner's.  We ate there our first night there which was also the restaurant's second night of full service.  It was quite good.

This is the street in Stonington with shops.  Slow, pleasant experience.  Much different from NYC!

The second evening we ate at Noah's restaurant.  Again, authentic and good.

http://noahsfinefood.com/new/

Our first full day into the trip we drove to Watch Hill near Westerly, Rhode Island to have lunch at Ocean House.  Excessive and really nice! It is a WOW! place.

http://www.oceanhouseri.com/

The ride to and from Ocean House continued to show us more of the Connecticut and Rhode Island seashore and neighborhoods.

The only fixed time for our second full day was to be at the Connecticut Cabaret in Berlin, CT in time for an 8:00 PM show.  With that much freedom we headed out to see as much as possible.  We made our lunch goal for Finz restaurant in Salem, Massachusetts at noon.  To get to Salem we drove through Providence, RI and the campus of Brown University, downtown Boston, and then up to Salem, MA.  Salem has the greatest concentration of 17th and 18th century domestic structures anywhere in America.  It is a beautiful little town.

http://hipfinz.com/

Following lunch we headed down the road to Hartford, CT and then to Middletown to see the campus of Wesleyan University.  It was another beautiful campus.

Finally, it was time for the big show at Connecticut Cabaret!  The show we went to see was The Great American Trailer Park, The Musical.  It was a hoot!  The cast and the musicians were all professionally trained and were quite good.  We laughed and had a great time.

http://ctcabaret.com/

The next morning we made the two and one half hour drive back to the center of Manhattan.  The drive home was almost completely on parkways and was really pretty. We enjoyed a great trip and have a much better understanding of New England life, architecture, food, and geography.  Well worth it!