| Where we’re going.
The only thing that makes the end of one vacation tolerable is the hope of another in the future. So we almost always have a trip (or two) up our sleeves when one has just finished. Here is a list of places we are planning to go, and for which trip reports will be posted in the future. Please email us YOUR tips and experiences in these places
- South Africa — (Spring 2020 trip postponed – huge sadness)
- Rocky Mountain National Park (Summer 2020 – fingers crossed)
- Syracuse area Route 90 yard sale (Summer 2020 – fingers crossed)
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Where We’d Like to Go — Some specific places we’ve read about in travel magazines or elsewhere that we’d like to check out.
Arts & Crafts Places
Mason City, Iowa (The Stockman House; Park Inn Hotel); Dard Hunter Studios in Chillicoth, Ohio; Moravian Tile Works, Fonthill (mansion) Doylestown, PA (DONE-Fall 2014!); overnight at Seth Peterson Cottage in Lake Delton, Wisconsin (www.sethpeterson.org); Blackwell, Bowness on Windermere, UK; Standen, UK; Chipping Camden, UK (DONE-Spring 2017!); Napa Rose restaurant at Disney’s Grand Californian; North Pond Restaurant, Lincoln Park-Chicago
FLW properties you can rent: Louis Penfield House, Willoughby, OH; Haynes Housellc, Fort Wayne, IN; Bernard Schwartz House, Two Rivers, WI; Donald & Elizabeth Duncan House, Laurel Highlands, PA; Seth Peterson Cottage, Lake Delton, WI
Los Angeles
hike in Franklin Canyon Park; Virginia Robinson Gardens; Japanese Garden in Sherman Oaks (done! – Spring 2015); Adamson House, Malibu (Failed Attempt, November 2015! Power outage!). LovellHealthHouseTours@gmail.com
Greater New England
Gary’s Ice Cream (Tiverton, RI – ginger flavor); Peaceful Meadows ice cream stand (Whitman, MA)
Arethusa al Tavolo (DONE – SUMMER 2019! Bantam, CT); Community Table (Washington, CT); Privet House (antiques-New Preston, CT)
Philip Johnson Glass House (New Cannan, CT); Weir Farm national Historic Site (Branchville, CT): Glebe House & Gertrude Jekyll Garden (Woodbury, CT) (DONE! – MAY 2017!)
St. Columba’s Chapel – Tiffany stained glass (Middletown, RI)
Best of Yankee Magazine: Agawam Diner – Rowley, MA; Lincoln Tavern – Boston (brunch); Geno’s Chowder & Sandwich Shop – Portsmouth, NH (lobster roll); Antiques on Elm – Manchester, NH; 2 Fat Cats Bakery – Portland, ME; Smiling Hill Farm – Westbrook, ME (ice cream);
Boston vs. Portland, ME (Yankee Magazine did a show down of the two cities in different food categories, so here are some places that made the final list)
Portland: 2 Fat Cats (bakery); Central Provisions (brunch-skillet cornbread); Holy Donut (potato in the flour)
Boston: Mike & Patty’s (breakfast); Lincoln Tavern (fruity pebbles pancakes)
Bay Area
Pizzaiolo, Telegraph Ave. Oakland; Flour + Water SF (pizza and pasta, maltagliati); Humphrey Slocombe alt-ice cream, try cornflake flavor with bourbon; Chocolatier Blue Parlor, Berkeley (ice cream)
Oregon
Salt & Straw Ice Cream, Portland (DONE! JULY 2013!); Ruby Jewel Ice Cream, Portland 428 SW 12th Ave Portland, OR 97205; Nostrano 1401 SE Morrison St Portland, OR 97214 (DONE! JULY 2013!)
New York City
The Pod Hotel, the podhotel.com; Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn
Momofuko Noodle Bar(partially done – Momofuko Milk Bar Spring 2012); Ideal Cheese Shop www.idealcheese.com; Murray’s Cheese Shop 254 Bleecker Street (DONE! July 2011); Tarallucci e Vino, 163 First Ave. (ciabatta panino – recommended by Francesco Bonami in T+L); Macaron Cafe (macaroncafe.com — 161 W. 36th St); Osteria al Doge (W. 44th St.); Laboratorio del Gelato (DONE! Summer 2019!)
Upstate: Old Field Farm/art and Agriculture (Cornwallville); Warwick Valley Winery; FDR Presidental Library (DONE! Summer 2015!); Olana (DONE! Summer 2018!)
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site (DONE! Summer 2013!)
Heritage Foods USA, Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Italian Market (south Philly) DiBruno Bros dibruno.com (DONE-Fall 2014!); Eastern State Penitentiary (easternstate.org); Fairmount Park Japanese House (shofuso.com); Capogiro gelato (capogirogelato.com); Maxfield Parrish stained glass mural in the Curtis Center (610 Walnut St.)
Atlanta
Krispy Kreamier (ice cream)
London
Sourdough pizza Franco Manca, Market Row, unit 4 (DONE! November 2012)
Terence Conran’s warehouse with restaurants – cheap eats at the Caff (theboundary.co.uk)and The Albion (Albioncaff.co.uk)
Tom’s Kitchen-Chelsea (tomskitchen.co.uk)
UK
Sainsbury Collection (art nouveau), Norwich, England (failed attempt 2020 – closed the day we wanted to visit!)
Mary Watts Mortuary Chapel, Compton, Surrey (DONE-January 2018!)
Abbotsbury, Dorset (clotted cream at Wheelwrights)
Blackwell (The Arts & Crafts House), Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria (Lake District)
Chelmsford, England – antiques in Coggeshall & Saffron Walden, Essex
London
londongardensonline.org.ok
Brussels
Grand Sablon Square chocolatiers (DONE-November 2014!); Pierre Marcolini (DONE-November 2014!)
Paris
Mama Shelter mamashelter.com; Porte de Clignancourt and Porte de Vanves flea markets
La Patisserie des Reves (7th, 93 Rue du Bac); Pierre Herme (6th, 72 Rue Bonaparte); Ble Sucre (12th, 7 rue Antoine Vollon – classic Madeleine and pain chocolat); Aux Tonneaux Des Halles 1eme – steak & puree des pommes de terre) & the food shops of Montorgeuil in general
Laduree at CDG Terminal F
Hotel Le Clement (clement-moliere-paris-hotel.com) St. germain; Regent’s Hotel (france-hotel-guide-com) near Luxembourg Gardnes; Hotel de la Paix (paris-montparnasse-hotel.com)
Chez Germaine (7th, prix fixe, 30 rue Pierre Leroux); near Luxembourg Gardens roasted figs with ice cream, prix fixe, 8 rue de Vaugirard); Chocolaterie de Jacques Genin, 133, rue de Turenne (Marais) – salted-butter caramels, upstairs laboratory; La Patisserie des Reves http://www.lapatisseriedesreves.com/
11th-12th: Mama Shelter (Philippe Stark); Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse Maufacture; Le 6 Paul Bert; Manger (st lunch; 24 rue Kller); Philou (12 ave. Richerarnd, 10th); Manger (set lunch; 24 rue Keller)
France
Camping de Bordeaux Lac (cottages and bungalows)
Rue le Bec, Lyon (nicolasbec.com); city of Nancy
Rome
Gelaterie in Rome: Gracchi (done! November 2016); Fatamorgana (done! November 2016); Gardens – Villa Doria Pamphili & Villa Sciarra & Sacro Bosco (Villa Orisini, Bomarzo)
Piedmont
Villa Tiboldi agriturismo, villatiboldi.it; Agrigelateria San Pe 29/A Cascina San Pietro/Poirino; Sacra de San Michele (hike up mule trail from Sant’Ambrogio www.sacradisanmichele.com and inspired Name of the Rose (done! April 2014) and town of Avigliana; town of Barolo (done! April 2014)
Rest of Italy
Castello di Gargonza (Tuscany); Hotel Bernardi (Venice); Hotel Galleria (Venice – Canal Views)
Germany
Bad Nauheim (Art Nouveau) – Kurhaus Hotel; Darmstadt
Spain
Day trips from Madrid: Alcala de Henares (World Heritage Site); Aranjuez (World Heritage Site); Chinchon (medieval city with good restaurants, anise liquor is a city specialty)
Australia
Sydney: Observatory Hotel (Observatoryhotel.com.au); Bondi Beach via Bus #333 scenic route (includes Saturday markets along Oxford Street; Danks Street district Waterloo; Black Star Pastry, gingerbread ninja men
Melbourne: Mornington Peninsula (1 hour drive away, wine country, Peninsula Hot Springs, and nearby Safety Beach, swim in Bass Strait); moorooduc Estate; Loch Ard Gorge (film site of The Pirate Movie); Michelangelo Restaurant (owned by the niece of the owners of Enoteca Corsi in Rome); Royal Exhibition Building