Dad writes: Well, I very much hope this blog is less infuriating than it was last night, when it wouldn't let me post an entry without a photograph, and then wouldn't let me upload a photograph.The only good thing was that contrary to my momentary despairing thought, it hadn't actually deleted the whole entry too. Anyway, today we've gone up in the world - we're in the posh but slightly gloomy Lenox Hotel in central Boston (No.1 in Boston on Trip Advisor, w...

Dad writes: Classic sightseeing/roadtrip sort of day, in rather classic early-April-in-New England weather (i.e. grey, wet, windy). Started off dragging Chloe briefly round what I must admit is a bit of a boy destination, the US Submarine Corps museum and place where the first-ever nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, is now on display. Then to Mystic, the pleasingly-named restored/rebuilt 17th Century port town that's completely unrelated to Clint Eastwood's My...

Dad writes: Phew, at last, we're out of New York. (Since we're now in a Hampton Inn on the outskirts of Groton, Connecticut, some would query the use of the words "Phew" and "at last" in that sentence, but what I've seen of Groton, Connecticut, I like.) We left this morning and spent most of the day driving along the length of Long Island, an island which is aptly named.Actually, it might be even better named "shopping mall island...

Dad writes Woah, so much going on since the last entry. Got better, for a start, quite quickly, overnight on Thursday. Went to the Museum of Modern Art, as wonderful as ever but more fraught to get round because EVERYONE is now taking pictures on their phones of everything they see, so you have to manoeuvre in between literally hundreds of snappers in every gallery. They'll have to ban it soon. Saw extraordinary Punch Drunk drama based (very loosely) on Mac...

Dad writes: Well, I hope that yesterday may turn out to represent a bit of a low ebb in the ups and downs of this trip. It certainly wasn't all bad, but honestly I did feel so rough with this cold, and jetlag or something caught up with Chloe so she was virtually out on her feet all day. And it was pouring with rain all day, and Judy was giving us a series of very gloomy bulletins about the state of her mother's health, and, well, everything really. On the up...