New England Holiday Festivals Too Good To Miss

No one dresses up for the holidays like the historic towns and villages of New England.  The first two weekends of December bring holiday festivals galore featuring historic house tours, gaily decorated inns, musical performances, costumed carolers, bell ringers, antiques and crafts shows and good cheer for all.  Here is a list of New England’s most inviting Holiday Festivals that are well worth the traveling for:

Maine Holiday Festivals
12/4 – 13   Kennebunkport Christmas Prelude a two week celebration.
12/4-6       Christmas By The Sea – Camden
12/5           Shaker Christmas Fair – New Gloucester
12/11-13  Christmas By The Sea – Ogunquit

New Hampshire Holiday Festivals
12/12-13  Inn to Inn Cookie Tour – North Conway, 14 Inns & Cookie Recipes!
12/28-29  Strawberry Banke Holiday House Tour  & Candlelight Stroll, Portsmouth

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World’s Best Chocolate Vacations!

For everyone who loves chocolate as much as I do, it’s time to plan a vacation swirling with chocolate tours and adventures.  Nothing matches the euphoric lift after  munching on a creamy chocolate delight.  Here are eight destinations for immersing yourself in chocolate ecstasy on your next vacation.

Belgium reigns supreme as masters of the cocoa bean.  Since the days of colonization in The Belgian Congo in the late 1800′s, cocoa has been shipped to Belgium to be crafted into dark creamy delights.  Today Belgium has over a dozen major chocolate factories producing  172,000 TONS of chocolate per year.  You’ll find chocolate shops to tempt you around most every corner, as the country now sports over 2,000 confectionery shops!  Visit the Musee due Cocao et du Chocolate in Brussels or The Chocolate Story in Bruges.  And for a full chocolate immersion, don’t miss the Chocolate Festival that takes place each year in early May in Bruges. Read more

Tour The City By Public Transportation

Here’s a wonderful site for finding your way around major US cities (New York, Boston, Chicago, SFO, DC (and others) by public transportation whether its by bus, subway, taxi or even on foot.  HopStop.com is an easy to use resource for finding the best route within these cities.  Just enter your origin and destination and your prefered means of travel and you’ll receive a routing complete with estimated travel time, amount of walking required and detailed maps.  This is a great site for those who like to strike out on their own.

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