We were up nice and early (or should I just say early as the temperature is only 2 degrees outside !). I have put on 5 layers of clothing today for the trip to the Sunday River Golf Club. It was about 30 minutes drive away from the hotel and hit off time was booked for 8.30 am so we left around 7.15 am after breakfast so I would have time to collect my rental clubs, and get a warm up and be ready to play. Kerry was waiting in the pro shop whilst I was warming up keeping warm and looking for any nice souvenir mementos. They gave me a set of fairly new Callaway clubs and off to the range I went and I was quite surprised how well I was hitting the woods ... read more

Well it was time to save and publish another few days of blogs so if you have not been following on your own you might want to resume from Day 18 posted a few days ago. Alarm went off at 7.45am and I headed straight to the window and I saw clouds with what appeared to be a resemblance of blue sky as well. Yippee. We did most of the packing last night and we had minimal breakfast supplies in the room to save some time (the delicious OJ we had bought at Newport with a Yoghurt I grabbed from breakfast yesterday). I was a bit freaked out last night when I was unable to upload any photos to my blog as without images it’s just a ramble. But I tried again this morning and all ... read more

Breakfast was in house here with a modern breakfast facility and was really big. Only a light breakfast of yoghurt, banana and OJ today. We had planned to get a Taxi down to Fenway Park the famous home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to start the day and we asked reception around 9.00am to call a Taxi for us to make sure we arrived in time for our 10.00am tour and he said don’t pay $70- catch the train instead for only $2.40 ! So we bought what they call here a Charlie Card to get us around. We got the instructions from him on how to get there using a combination of the Red Line from the Andrew T-Line station which was about 900 metres walk away from our hotel. What a coincidence ... read more

Alarm was set for 4.20am to wake me up to watch the NRL Grand Final but I don’t know why as when I have something special occurring I seem to wake up by instinct like the body has it’s own alarm clock. Not sure if that is normal or something that makes me special (hopefully the latter !). Some of the places we have stayed at during this trip have what is called Direct TV with > 100 channels and I was lucky enough here in Newport to have Fox Sports 2 coverage of the NRL Grand Final and I got a text message from Luke when I woke up saying he was off to see the big game live in Sydney to watch the mighty Penrith Panthers against local rivals from Sydney’s west the Parramatta ... read more

We started the day with a quick look around the back rooms of The Gris where we had breakfast that was included in our fee. The taproom where we had dinner last night has been described as “the most handsome bar in America”. The firearms room has items dating from the 15th century. The largest of their dining rooms is an old covered bridge that was dismantled piece by piece from its original site in New Hampshire and reconstructed onsite. The Inn was established in 1776 and has been continuously operated since, however the taproom is actually older as it was the original schoolhouse that was built in town in 1738 and in 1801 it was set onto logs and moved to its current location with its original domed ceiling still in place which is made ... read more