New Hampshire
Reading Carol's and Mommymash's blogs I remembered my visit to New Hampshire. It was in 1987, a warm summer and we (my mom and me) spend three weeks with my great-aunt in Laconia.
She wasn't reaaly my great-aunt but she was the widow of my mother's uncle. She came to Hannover (Germany!) at the end of the war, she was born in the Ucraina. All her family was dead, shot by russians. She saw it from her hide.
When she met my great-uncle he was already determined to emigrate to the States and she went with him because she still was so afraid of the russians. She had hoped for a new family but there was along distance now between her and her husband's family. They never got children (as far as I know).
When she felt age coming she sold the house and bought a right of abode in a catholic condominium where she could be looked after if necessary. That's where she lived when we came to visit her.
It was a nice house, a bit strange to our european habits, at the end of the street, behind the garden there was the wood. That was so great!
Every day aunt Lydia gave us some sandwiches and a big amount of melons and we went to discover Laconia. We sat on the beach and gave the melons to the chipmunks because after one week of daily melons we didn't like to eat them any longer. The chipmunks were exited. It was fun to feed them!
We went to Boston two times - what a town! All those skycrapers! Two things I remember best: Beacon Hill and the Christmas shop. We stood there and couldn't believe what we were seeing: A whole shop stuffed with everything for Christmas! Outside is was warm summer and here a snorking Santa Claus lay in his bed!
We went to Cambridge as well and had a look at those amazing glas flowers. Did anyone of you see them? They are so fantastic!
And we went to Canterbury Shaker Village. Very interesting.
Of course we went to Concord. Yes. There we had lunch in a small chinese restaurant, don't remember the name, had canard with orange sauce. We could take the leftovers with us, something completly new to us!
I wish we had had more opportunity to explore the nature but at that time we couldn't get hold of maps with hiking trails.
I would so much like to revisit Laconia...
...the lover, the dreamer, and me (Jim Henson)
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i've lived in new hampshire and massachusetts my whole life and i've never actually visited shaker village, but i have driven by it plenty of times!
so europeans don't take their leftovers home from restaurants, huh? that's so funny, i'd have never guessed that something i'm so used to doing would be so unusual to some!
if you make it to new hampshire again you should definitely check out white mountain national forest. it's absolutely stunning, and there's so much to explore. it's about an hour and a half from where we live, and here's some of the pictures from when we drove up there in october: http://www.hipmama.com/node/40143
this, in case you can't tell, is a pun.
one of the most beautiful places i've seen.
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AND we will meet and have some fun together, won't we? I read about the hiking trail from the Canadian border down to Florida and I would love hiking on it. The woods round Laconia seemed to be untouched by men and that is something mostly unknown in Germany (there are some minor spots where the wood isn't used, but they are so rare).
Now, over twenty years later, you can get the leftovers in restaurants here, too. If you ask for it. But of course, it makes sense, doesn't it? You paid for the whole thing, so you have the d*mnd right to eat it all, so you have the right to take the rest home and eat it later.
...the lover, the dreamer, and me (Jim Henson)