Category Archives: Vermont

August 4, 2011 · 2:22 pm

Finally picking an inn to stay at in Vermont!

After reading up on lots of inns in southern Vermont, we finally picked the Old Tavern Inn in Grafton (after I found a less expensive room than was listed online). Very hard call but I think Grafton will be the quintessential inn and village I’ve been looking for to show off Vermont to my husband – who has never been there. I was captivated by the beautiful Inn at Manchester – which is not in town but in the bucolic countryside with a pool – but was a bit put off by the outlet malls nearby. Also liked the more affordable and perhaps laid-back  Stone Boat Farm Bed & Breakfast in Jamaica, Vt.  Next time.

 

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July 2, 2011 · 5:19 pm

VBT – a long way from Vermont Bicycle Touring

I guess there’s a reason Vermont Bicycle Touring changed its name to VBT – they don’t seem to offer many trips in Vermont, judging from their latest catalog of hiking and biking vacations all over Europe, South America, Central America and the U.S. My family was among the first to go on VBT trips back in the early 1970s (I see from the catalog that the company is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary – so that’s about right) and they were wonderful. We biked from beautiful country inn to beautiful country inn w/great food and scenery. Now looks like might not be in our price range. Oh well.

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June 30, 2011 · 10:11 pm

North Adams and Vermont (again) inns

Okay, so I’m also told I should look into inns in Chester Vt. and in North Adams, Mass. (the Berkshires) there are several great albeit pricey options including Porches of MassMOCA (the contemporary art museum I want to visit there), which looks retro high-design trendy, and River Bend Farm, which looks just the opposite (it’s a  1770 Georgian Colonial one mile from town.) Another high design/price option is Field Farm Guest House in a Bauhaus box built in 1948.

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June 28, 2011 · 10:28 pm

Vermont inn’s cont’d:

My dad reminded me about the Old Tavern  in Grafton, one of the nation’s oldest operating inns (according to its website) opened in 1801.  Another cool thing is it’s part of a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the vitality of rural Vermont communities. Can’t argue with that.

Dad also suggested looking at where Vermont Bicycle Touring (VBT) stays on their trips – which I used to go on as a kid with my parents. Good ideas all.

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June 27, 2011 · 11:33 pm

Where the ramble on the East Coast – Berkshires and southern Vermont?

So I’m thinking, with our four free days on the East Coast in early September, we can go so many places in a few hour’s – which I loved when I lived in Boston and later Stamford, Connecticut. (So different from Michigan, where I grew up…and here in Iowa.)

Right now, since we’ll be in NYC and then Connecticut and then end up on Long Island, our best bet may be to go to the Berkshires (North Adams, perhaps) and then to southern Vermont (maybe the famous Dorset Inn in Dorset or a splurge at the Inn at Sawmill Farm in West Dover, which oddly enough was formed in part from my cousin’s vacation home that I visited as a child.) Both are places my husband’s never been to and places I long to return.

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