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America, Countries

Tapping into Platinum syrup in Vermont

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For those who struggle getting the golden nectar out of the bottle here’s a lesson in tapping into Platinum syrup in Vermont.

Visitors to New England will inevitably tap first into the region in its showpiece city Boston.

And some of us linger for a summer seeing both sides.

Skyline’s the limit: In Boston

Black culture in Tremont Street and working in Irish bars and the historic Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall area.

With the beauty of timeless Boston being that you can return 35 years on and it still feels the same even when they have totally transformed the harbour area.

Of course, once you’ve got a taste for Boston and Massachusetts you’ll want to venture further into New England life.

Dreaming of New England

Hello flower: Providence, Rhode Island

The olde worlde charm and beaches of Manchester, New Hampshire.

Pizza culture and Yale in New Haven, Connecticut and art and Ivy League again with Brown and murals in Providence in Rhode Island.

Got it licked: With Handsome George at Yale

Which brings us to the New England states still on our to do list and a very attendant waitress Kelly who flagged up her own homestead of Vermont.

And how I just must get up there, and especially in the Fall, to tap syrup from the maple trees.

Now we know and have shared the fact that everyone’s idyll of a wholesome rural family settled there when the Von Trapps relocated to the US.

Very Vermont 

Field of dreams: Austria or Vermont

And we just know that they would have tapped into the Vermont syrup.

You’ll stay in the Von Trapps‘ adopted town of Stowe on your Platinum Travel New England Fall Foliage trip.

And in Montpelier visit a maple syrup family where you’ll learn how to tap the golden liquid from the trees.

But as Maria once said, let’s start at the very beginning. 

In Boston on the red-brick Freedom Trail, before moseying through the bronzing leaves of Vermont’s lush trees.

The Maine meal

Life’s your lobster: In Maine

New Hampshire’s White Mountains glisten at this time of year while on a clear day you can see as far as Canada.

While for lighthouse fans there’s Maine’s oldest in Portland.

Where it’s best to go native with a decadent fresh lobster dinner… now if only I had Kelly, the best waitress in New England there to serve me.

With pancakes and fresh maple syrup tapped from a Vermont. tree.

Fall for New England

Chowder cheer: Rhode Island or Boston, take your pick

Your New England Fall Foliage trip will see you leave on September 19, from €3790 per person including flights.

With single supplement €1630 per person and a deposit (including flights) for €650 per person.

You’ll get return flights from Dublin and transfers. and handpicked hotels over seven nights.

There’s authentic dining with seven breakfasts, five dinners and wine.

You’ll travel by customised coaches (twice legroom of standard coach.

And much, much more.

While you’ll return with extra skills from tapping into Platinum syrup in Vermont.

 

America, Countries, Culture

Let’s turn on the juice and New England shakes loose

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The ghost with the most is back nearly 40 years on so let’s turn on the juice and New England shakes loose.

Everyone’s favourite sassy spectre Beetlejuice is revisiting his old haunts of Massachusetts which are also mine.

And our friends in New England have scared up some spooktacular spots from the movie to draw us to their states and Commonwealth.

Streets of New England: Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice chooses Connecticut to come back from the dead.

Only despite the charms of the Constitution State the moviemakers modelled Winter River on East Corinth in Vermont.

With Melrose in Massachusetts also commissioned for some of the Halloween shots.

The Mass media

Benchmark: Robin Williams and Matt Damon

Now the Commonwealth has long been at the forefront of Mass media.

And we have all of us, who are not from Massachusetts, first made acquaintance with these New Englanders from the small and big screens.

And the classic bar sitcom Cheers which launched a merch marketplace which my travelling buddy got on board.

While in the Millennium Boston’s legal landscape was under the microscope with Ally McBeal and her pals.

Boston too is home to Hollywood acting elite in Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg and Uma Thurman.

And, of course, like all Bostonians they love to give back.

With Matt championing a campaign to put a statue up of the late Robin Williams near the bench where the duo shot a famous scene from Good Will Hunting.

Busting for Boston at the movies

Give ’em Sox: Brad Pitt at Fenway Park

Of course, those of who have spent a summer working in Boston and living on the wrong side of the tracks will recognise South Dublin from The Departed.

And enjoying any free time we got at Fenway Park, featured heavily in Brad Pitt’s Moneyball.

All of which you can take in on a Boston Movie Mile Walking tour or the Boston TV and Movie Bus Tour.

Where, of course, you can see why Boston is a picnic for every teddy bear as long as that bear is Ted.

All roads lead to Rhode Island

A dog’s life: With Handsome George in Yale, New Haven

Now the five states and commonwealth that is Massachussets bring the region all together under the New England umbrella.

And it is a joy to travel through them all as we have been doing, and taking in the landscape along the way, on Amtrak.

And so we have been able to marvel at the coasts of sailing Nirvana Rhode Island which have so appealed to artists and film-makers.

Rosecliff Mansion in Newport features in several famous movies like 27 Dresses, The Great Gatsby and True Lies. 

The Mansions of Newport are also a major setting for The Gilded Age.

And fans can go behind the scenes and get all the insight on The Gilded Age Tour which takes in the four mansions featured in the series.

Dreaming of New England

Open and Shutter case: For Leo

Scorsese also returned to New England to use Otter Cliff in Acadia National Park for the cliff scenes in Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

With the movie set on an island off the coast of Massachusetts.

Popham Beach, at the tip of Maine’s Phippsburg Peninsula was featured in the 1999 film Message in a Bottle.  

Many of the scenes of Cider House Rules starring a young Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron and Michael Caine, were filmed at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park.

While the famous Mystic Pizza also inspired the movie of the same name starring Julia Roberts.  

So we’d all agree then, it’s frightening how much movie talent and legacy there is in New England.

So let’s turn on the juice and New England shakes loose