Day 10 - Woods Hole, Newport

After Flo's, we went for a drive up Bellevue Avenue to look at all the fancy mansions - and there were many:

 This one is for sale (above)

There were so many and the styles were varied, something that these photos didn't capture.  I would have had better luck photographing fences and fancy gates such as this:

Anyhow, this was a worthwhile stop.  Even Steve was impressed (how could you not be?)  He forgot until after we left that Newport was where Australia beat the US (and our mate Dennis Connor) in the Americas Cup.

And then there was more driving - another 1.5hours to Wood Hole.  This wasn't too bad and we found our rental quite easily.  We met the owner and he gave us some recommendations for dinner and then he left us to it.

Tonight Julian had half of what Mr Heinz offered but surprisingly refused the blueberry yoghurt.  So we gave up and headed to Woods Hole, a very small township (10 or so shops and restaurants) about 2miles from our rental.  It is the launching point of the Martha's Vineyard ferry.

This is Woods Hole:

 Looking out towards Martha's Vineyard.

 The view from our restaurant balcony.

On our owners recommendation we went to Phusion.  He warned that it was expensive but the food was worth it.  We couldn't have summed it up better.  Steve and I had the same thing - Kobe beef burger with lobster tails and a Martha's Vineyard brewery Indian Pale Ale.  The burger was magnificent, easily the best thing we have eaten in the US - perfect in every way.  The beer was really good too.  We did need something to go right for us today.

However as we were enjoying the view too much, the market/shop next door closed and we needed milk for Julian.  So we went to Falmouth 5miles up the road to get it - another visit to a Rite Aid and bought a gallon of milk for $3.69.  We will go back as the houses there are perfect little dolls houses!

Tomorrow Katrina and Greg are arriving from Montreal.  I haven't seen them in 5 years and Steve saw them in February when he was over there.  They are staying with us until Sunday.  The weather is good for tomorrow but thunderstorms are predicted for Friday night/Saturday morning so we will play it by ear to see what we do.