New Hampshire and Belfast

Nancy, Eric and Liz

After staying with Matt and Barbara is Long Beach, Matt put us in touch with his sister Nancy in New Hampshire. We stayed here for a few days enjoying the sunshine, the local area which Nancy showed us around, Eric took us on a lovely drive to some of the surrounding areas and Liz kept us company when we enjoyed their home - and it was a beautiful home.
Chris assisted Eric and some of the local people on covering up the roof of the local Marconi Museum and arrived home thoroughly sun soaked!

Chris on the roof!

This part of our journey began our road trip! We hired a car in Massachusetts (a lot less expensive than New Hampshire, New York and Maine!) and we left the kindness of Nancy and her family and drove to Belfast! Ok Belfast Maine!

This is a lovely little town - probably bigger than Holywood (Co. Down) but roughly the same layout and some really beautiful shops. We arrived when there was the 1st Belfast Street Party, and we'd some fun! The streets were busy with families, people dancing and live bands. Such a great atmosphere.

Our host in Maine, a lovely lady called Donna opened her home to us and what a home she had! Donna lives in what was going to be the garage and she has put a large trailer into the space and made a lovely home around it. Such an interesting set-up and it works really well and we loved it! Whilst staying with Donna, we got the meet her twin sister and 91 year old sprightly mother who wanted to be able to swim in their pond again! In the photo you can only see their Mum's head by the tyre, but everyone was enjoying the cool down (ok, I only went in up to my shorts but...)

Donna and Judy in the Pond

That evening, Chris and I went into the town for a nosey and we saw lots of lovely things. Chris would have loved to have stayed in this chair, but the shop was offering free apple pies and coffee so he was quickly enticed in!!!!

I just love the quote

Chris painting at the street party

With the temperatures hitting 35 degrees, we headed into the car and away from Maine across into Canada to continue on the road. Next stop - Prince Edward Island!