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The drive north along the Maine coast gave our aching calves a rest. A beautiful bright blue sky made the sea sapphire blue, but we bypassed the southern beaches and Kennebunkport where the Kennedys and Bushes have homes and stopped off at Cape Elizabeth where there are 2 typical lighthouses, one of them Portland Head was the first on the coast built by Washington in 1790 and still working. Also home to the renowned Two Lights Lobster Shack, supposedly the best place for lobster in Maine. It was a bit windy to sit on the picnic tables despite the ocean views but cozy inside and we ate lobster and lobster roll from cardboard trays with slaw and a heap of fries which come with all dishes here. One of the best lobsters we've had and cheap at £12 tho not as cheap as Thailand of course where we got 5 for the same price. I was glad I only saw later how they scoop the live lobsters out of the tank, stuff them wriggling into a rope drawstring sack and throw them into the vat of boiling water. We walked along the coast outside over rocks like broken large stone treetrunks or petrified chocolate flakes before heading north again.
We stayed at an old fashioned holiday resort like in Dirty Dancing but almost deserted at the end of season, at the end of a fingerlike peninsula typical of the north Maine coast. Nearby is a long sandy beach where we took a blustery walk and an old Civil War fort guarding the river which leads north to Quebec. We made the most of this first day as the next day it was cold and rainy so we found a coffee shop in the nearest small town to spend the morning. We were kept warm by blueberry pancakes and an enormous bowl of porridge with walnuts, blueberries and maple syrup and headed back to the hotel to open a bottle of Californian merlot and do what couples on holiday do on rainy days - our Spanish homework.
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