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To say that Cape Cod is overdeveloped is an epic understatement.It's overdeveloped like Croydon is overdeveloped, or Calcutta.It makes the Cote d'Azur, in its current condition, look like a string of quaint fishing villages.
And yet, oddly enough, on the basis of one day's experience, I'd say that a little bit of its charm still remains.
I didn't see much this morning, when I drove half-way along the southern edge of the Cape from Hyannis to Chatham, at the "elbow."I saw truly stunning numbers of motels, and almost as many small shopping malls.I might have seen a blade of grass somewhere, but if so it was probably fake.And towards the end of my drive, at Chatham, I did see a pretty big and decent beach with no-one on it.But apart from maybe a few upscale shops in Chatham "village," I didn't experience much charm.
However, Chloe and I did better this afternoon, when we went in the opposite direction, north-west, to Sandwich.This is very pretty and charming (as you can see to some extent in the pic of the town hall), and is also the location of what is apparently the only museum open on Cape Cod on 12th April:fortunately, this turns out to be an absolutely riveting glass museum complete with a brilliant demonstration of the art by a young woman who made a gorgeous and very complicated martini glass before our very eyes - a birthday present, she said, for her sister - only to see it fall off the tube she was using and shatter on the ground seconds before she had finished it."That happens a lot," she said.
After that, the only thing to do was to go to the cinema, and we went to the one that's right here in Hyannis and saw Duncan Jones's Source Code, which, like so many films these days, demands summing up with the phrase "enjoyable hokum."
We're off to dinner soonish in search of lobster, which we haven't eaten any of yet.Trouble is, I need to make this hotel's maddeningly erratic Internet connection work in order to research a suitable venue, and that means restarting the computer, and that means...
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