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The Mid-Maine Coast: Camden, Rockland and Rockport
Although we love the entire Maine coast, the mid-coast trio of Camden, Rockland and Rockport is one of our favorite areas. Partly because they are charming towns in and of themselves (with the best...
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Mount Desert Island Restaurants
Joyce and I, as discussed in our Mount Desert Island Top Ten List blog, enjoyed another fantastic time on Downeast Maine’s Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. But now trip, regardless of how...
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A Special Night in Camden, Maine at Natalie’s Restaurant
Joyce and I love the Maine coast, especially the mid-coast, Camden, Rockland, Rockport area. After numerous years of trial and error from many visits to this area, we have our favorite restaurants in...
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Our Summer Pilgrimage to LL Bean: and “Outlet City” (i.e., Freeport) Maine
We must have gone to Maine 15 to 20 times over the 22 years we lived in Boston. Don’t get me wrong. We absolutely enjoyed the Cape, Nantucket and the Vineyard, the Berkshires, White Mountains and the...
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Our Summer Pilgrimage to Red’s Eats: Fighting the Traffic in Wiscasset Maine
Red’s or Bust We like virtually everybody who has ever driven mid-coast Maine, and/or loves lobster rolls, prays at the altar of Red’s Eats. Red’s is certainly an unlikely culinary altar. It is a...
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A Brief, Reminiscent Spin through Southern Maine: Kennebunkport and Wells
After leaving Portland, toward our Boston July 4 rendezvous with friends, we took a very quick, painfully brief, reminiscent spin through a couple of our favorite Southern Maine towns. Our first “stop”...
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Our Top Ten List for Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
This is truly God’s Country. Joyce and I have spent a lot of time on Mount Desert (including a month back in the 1980s) and plan to spend at least another month on the island in a few years. But until...
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Mount Desert Island Restaurants
Joyce and I, as discussed in our Mount Desert Island Top Ten List blog, enjoyed another fantastic time on Downeast Maine’s Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. But now trip, regardless of how...
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Interesting Stops Between Portland and Camden Maine
We left Portland early and made a short, mandatory, but generally perfunctory stop at LL Bean and a couple other Freeport outlet stores. Then on to a couple more interesting stops. Bailey Island We...
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A Culinary Evening, with an Artistic Detour, in Portland, Maine
Portland is a lovely small city, with a nice museum and, reputedly, as many restaurants per capita as San Francisco. Every one of our trips to Maine includes at least one over-night stay, a walk...
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Since we got off to a late start, we spend the first night in Portland. Hardly a hardship, since we enjoy the city and have always had good meals at the perpetually popular Fore Street. The treat of...
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A Day in Camden/Rockport/Rockland
We spend two nights and one full day in the lovely three-city area, taking in as many of the area’s attractions and restaurants as we could in the time we had available. Appledore Day Cruise We began...
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Yarmouth Nova Scotia to Portland Maine Ferry
Rather than drive back from Nova Scotia to New England, we travelled from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Portland, Maine via the NovaStar ferry, a lo-o-o-ng (10 hour) sea journey. While many people use the...
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A Night in Portland, Maine
Our ferry from Yarmouth Nova Scotia to Portland Maine arrived as scheduled at 6:30 PM. After disembarking and going through immigration and customs (our Global Entry Passes aren’t applicable for travel...
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Up (and Down) the Downeast Coast to Camden, Maine
After deciding to pass on the tempting exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, it was time to leave Portland Maine. We followed the route we had taken many times before when we lived in Boston. And,...
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During our trip, we spent two nights, and had two dinners in Camden Maine: Natalie’s One the first night, we ate at a place we have been to multiple times– Natalie’s. We were too lobstered out from...
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Portland Maine
The Changing Face of Old Port Portland Maine Downtown Portland Maine is a lovely place to visit with its renovated, 19th-century brick buildings that now house restaurants, bars and upscale shops....
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Freeport Maine (2018 update)
LL Bean To us, Freeport Maine = LL Bean and dozens of outlet stores. No matter how many times we are in the general area, we always take time to stop at least at “Bean” for clothes and outdoor...
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Bath Maine
Bath Maine has been a shipbuilding powerhouse literally from its 17th-century founding, making small pinnaces and large 6-mast schooners, through clipper ships, WWI and WWII naval ships to present-day...
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Wiscasset Maine
To us, Wiscasset Maine is one of the prettiest towns on the Maine coast. Even more important to us, it is the home to the Maine institution: Red’s Eats, with each of its giant lobster rolls probably...
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