In rural East Connecticut, the town of East Hampton stands out for its many acres of public natural land. In East Hampton’s state forests and state parks you can watch the epic Connecticut River rolling by, cross a 19th-century covered bridge and walk the course of a lost railroad that once shuttled passengers between New …
Wrapped in a bend on the Clarence River, the city of Grafton is a treat for its historic architecture and stately avenues lined with mature trees. In October Grafton’s multitude of jacarandas come into bloom, and this enchanting scene is celebrated with a week-long festival. The city has a lot of architecture from the Victorian, …
The name of this town between Hartford and Springfield on the west bank of the Connecticut River comes from a canal that was constructed in the 1820s. The Enfield Falls Canal is mostly intact despite being obsolete for more than 150 years, and its towpath can be walked via the Windsor Locks Canal State Park. …
Up there with Australia’s most important industrial centres, the South Australian city of Port Pirie is home to one of the world’s largest smelting facilities. Since the 1880s the silver-lead-zinc ore mined in Broken Hill, NSW has been transported across hundreds of kilometres of outback to be refined in Port Pirie and then exported. And …
At Batemans Bay on NSW‘s South Coast the shimmering waters of the Clyde River pour into the Pacific Ocean. If you’re into seafood, the river estuary is one of Australia’s best locations for shellfish, and you can try super-fresh oysters freshly plucked from the waters. Batemans Bay is also an ecotourism paradise, where you can …
The small town of New Fairfield is on the west shore of Candlewood Lake, the largest inland body of water in Connecticut. While the lake is a famed second home for affluent New Yorkers, most of the plush houses by the shore in New Fairfield are lived in year round. This is all in contrast …
On the north bank of the Murray River, just inside New South Wales, Moama is one half of a twin town crossing both the river and the state border. This puts you as close as can be to Echuca, which emerged as Australia’s largest inland port in the 19th century. Echuca’s heritage has been meticulously …
The largest multi-commodity seaport in the whole of Queensland was hardly more than a village as recently as the 1960s. Gladstone is now the world’s fourth-largest coal exporting terminal, but to talk only about industry would be to sell the town short. One of the top regional botanic gardens is right here, and national parks, …
The largest inland city in New South Wales rests amid farmland in the Riverina region. Wagga Wagga, which means “place of many crows” in the Aboriginal Wiradjuri dialect, is on the banks of the wide and slow-moving Murrumbidgee River. One river-loop on the edge of town has been turned into a beach, where you can …
The seaside town of Port Macquarie lies at the mouth of the Hastings River on the mid north New South Wales coast. Here, dreamy beaches are punctuated by rugged headlands and give way to a rare patch of coastal rainforest to be explored on a boardwalk. The coast in Port Macquarie is hugged by a …