Sitting alongside route 101 between Peterborough and Marlborough this is one of the most beautiful sights I had ever seen as the leaves changed colour. There is more information in this section of my blog

Left Boston airport on a car rental bus and joined a long queue to pick up the car. The car was a convertible Pontiac and we made the sat nav work after an initial panic. Driving an automatic on the right hand side of the road must be completely natural to virtually every American, but when you drive a manual gearbox car it takes time to get used to braking instead of changing down gear to slow down. A dark, wet night on the initially busy route 93 from Boston to...

The flight from Heathrow to Boston was due to take off at 2:40pm, but at 1:50 we were still unsure whether we were going to spend the night in London or Manchester (Manchester NH that is). The nice man behind the Virgin standby desk at Heathrow, who had early told us the flight was very full and we should come back at 1:30 when he would know if there were spare seats, wasn't giving anything away with the same sad expression and body language that seemed to say 'n...