Blogs from Newport, Rhode Island, United States, North America

Our condo was so nice and huge! We made our own breakfast at our leisure! The view from the deck was gorgeous. Ed got up real early hoping to take a picture of the sunrise over the water, but learned we were going to get to see the sunset….the sunrise was on the other side of our building!!! Following breakfast we’d took off to go tour The Breakers, one of the beautiful mansions you could visit here in Newport. In the mid 1800’s wealthy southern planters seeking to beat the heat began to build their summer “cottages” along Bellevue Avenue in Newport. Several years later wealthy northerners began building larger mansions nearby. By the turn of the century many of the nations wealthiest families were spending their summers in Newport. They included the Vanderbilts, who built ... read more

Today we were headed for Newport, Rhode Island and we headed off east along Highway 20 connecting with Highway 146 down to the State Capital of Providence, and down Interstate i195 to Newport. We went via some backroads through small towns and started to see some nice foliage colours and the overall travel time was around 2.5 hours today. I tried hard to find a diner on our way but had no luck so we kept on driving and driving and we eventually got so far we decided to keep on going all the way. As we entered Rhode Island it ticked off our 47th state visited and state # 7 on this trip (only 3 more to go !) The weather was mostly fine but still quite cold around 14 degrees but eventually turned to ... read more

I awoke at 6:30 to the stillness of the boat. We were no longer moving; the vibrations of the ship had stopped. I went to the balcony curtains, opened them, and went out on to the balcony. We were anchored off Newport, Rhode Island, the port side (our side) of the ship was facing toward a bridge with a small lighthouse on the rocks below the bridge. The sun was just coming up and the morning fog was starting to burn off. It was cool to see the sailboats anchored in the harbor near the stern of the ship. Soon there was a knock at the door and I let in room service that we had ordered the night before. We ate breakfast on the balcony, and watched as the tender boats (the Crown Princess lifeboats) ... read more

We took our time getting out of bed, headed to the Lido as has been our norm. I grabbed a couple of those petite bowls of Swiss muesli and Sharon had some French Toast. It was past nine before we met up with Erin and Dennis in the atrium of the lower promenade that we shared with them; only, we were forward near the bow and they were aft looking backwards off the stern. This gave them a longer walk to the forward atrium. It took a bit of a wait catching an elevator down to the A-Deck to catch a tender. The line was a confused jumble of people heading out the starboard side. Most people in line had their color coded tender tickets; which, they needed to have previously requested. Only after all of ... read more

Geo: 41.4921, -71.3113We woke up early this morning since we had an estimated four-hour drive from Hope to Newport. After breakfast in the Inn when they opened at 8 a.m., we were off by 9:00 for the drive through New York and Connecticut to Newport, Rhode Island and the Rose Island Lighthouse. Anticipating heavy traffic as we made our way on I-287 just north of New York City, we allowed plenty of time for the drive. Traffic was heavy but did not slow down significantly anywhere on the trip. We got through the worst of it before stopping for gas soon after entering Connecticut. Seeing that we would get to Newport about two hours before the boat was scheduled to pick us up, we stopped for lunch at Oatley's Family Restaurant in New Kingstown. When we ... read more