2016 Holiday Day 7 - Sandwich MA to North Conway NH

It was time to leave the Dan'l Webster Inn today, and we were feeling a bit sad about that. The room was pretty good, although the air conditioning and main be mattress weren't terrific, the character, quietness, location, food and staff were all exceptional. We will definitely be back!

We stopped for gas (petrol) in Sandwich before heading up Route 3 into the 93 to take us through the new tunnels under Boston that had been developed as part of the Big Dig project a few years ago - which was interesting to see.

We then headed to Salem to visit the Salem Witch Museum which tells the story of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials as a kind-of show set in an auditorium. You then move on to a small exhibition about the history of witches through the ages. It's a pretty good summary of events in Salem at that time.

We then got back in the car, and after a brief stop at a Dunkin in Rochester (where we once again got chatting to a chap there who pretty much told us his life story!) made our way north to the North Conway Grand Hotel in North Conway for our second week. We soon got checked in and after a wander round the hotel, we headed for the bar to have dinner. It was a slow service (they said it was busy but it didn't look it) and we ordered a burger for myself, fried chicken for Clare and a burger for Matthew. The food was OK - nothing special...

Image from hotel website (we'd already made a mess before I could photograph it!)

The room is very nice though. We chose a 1 bedroom suite, and there's plenty of space to spread out. There are a lot of families here so it was a bit noisy in the evening, but it settled down soon enough thankfully - although those noisy kids will be awake in the morning... Especially the loud little kids next door...