Vermont Trip With Kim: Newport and New Hampshire

It snowed all the way to Vermont. We were on a mission. We were dropping off a sewing machine to one of our students in Vermont and then going on to Newport VT to have a nice vacation at one of our favorite inns: Cliff Haven Farm.

It's a beautiful inn. This is the entrance way. We were pretty hungry so the first thing we did after settling in to our room was to go out to Lago Trattoria, though they serve food that's more like a fine restaurant than a family restaurant. Probably the best restaurant in town.

Of course I forgot about taking pictures until I was half way done eating my seafood cake.



And Kim was well into eating her Romaine Salad. This whole leaf romaine salad reminding me of eating, for the first time on a business trip, in a nice bistro in southern California and getting served a 1/4 wedge of iceberg lettuce with dressing on top. One of my colleagues went ballistic, and working for LMSC (Lockheed Missiles and Space) that could be dangerous.

Kim had the gorgonzola and prosciutto ravioli which looks great. She liked it.

I had the quail and duck with some butternut squash ravioli. Very nice.

Here is a picture of me looking like the Cowboy Don crossed with Edward G. Robinson. "M'Yeah. See. You have this cow in my pasture, see? And I don't like that. See? Try the fish. M'yeah."

And the biscotti. I can't tell you how good they are. These are great paired with some Vin Santo. Yum.

And the espresso drink are great. Let me translate that for you New Yorkers, "The expresso drinks were good. M'yeah. See?"

The next day we went to another great restaurant called the Thai Tanic. I ain't making this up, folks. The Thai food was pretty good. I got the Tamerind Duck and Kim got the Honey Duck. I would have loved the Tamerind Honey Duck, personally but that wasn't on the menu.

The food was very good. We ate the dumplings too and ordered three orders to take home for dinner. That night we feasted on fried and remicrowaved dumpling and popcorn while reading and watching movies. Kim knitted her heart out. It doesn't get any better than this, people.



Look at all the pretty colors.

Of course we didn't mind staying in the room the whole day, only coming out to eat, or shop at the local yarn store or the local book store. I bought 5 books and Kim bought enough yarn to make me another tuque (toque) and some socks. It's great being married to a knitter. It's great being married to Kim.




All that was left was to get out of town. And we did heading for New Hampshire and our friend Tom.

The James Place Inn

The James Place Inn is a lovely inn that I stayed at in Freeport. I stayed there twice. Once when I got to Maine on Sunday, I had a very large room with a double jacuzzi and later a smaller room with a great claw foot tub.


A great knitting corner for Kim.


A nice double Jacuzzi.


Bed, very comfortable.

Large bathroom.


And breakfast seating.


Room two, on the second night I stayed there after touring Maine, was also very comfortable. It didn't have a knitting nook but it had a desk, something I needed for my computer and my route planning.


A claw foot tub, or is it.


It's a jacuzzi tub, extra deep. Yippee!


A great bed.


A desk, very important but this replaces the knitting nook. Sigh. I guess we'll just have to go form the larger room when we stay there. The bathroom in this room was cramp but serviceable.


I had a lovely stay there.

The Cliff Haven Inn, a jewel

Whereas the Yellow Farm House had a Jacuzzi tub, really a regular tub unless specified, in every room, such about, the Cliff Haven Farm B&B only had it in their Chocolate Room and their Blue Room. But they only have three rooms. They are VERY large rooms. The Chocolate Room, which I got, naturally, is huge. Kim was so jealous because it was not only a separate nook, it was large enough to be a separate room.

Jacques and Mim, the last Jacque pronounced /mem/ with a schwa, like in the end of "the", I don't have an upside down 'e'. Anyway, I didn't meet Mim. She was away but I did have a great time talking to Jacques. He's an ex-dairy farmer and now spends his time making the most wonderful and lightest fancy maple syrup that I've had since I got a gallon in Ohio. Or rather, my ex's mother got it for me.



Nonetheless, I loved the room and had a great breakfast there. Mim is a good cook and so is Jacques. Mim is also a good baker.

I can't wait to bring Kim back in the winter. Maybe we'll ski. Of course, we'll get the Chocolate Room. It was $175 a night. I gave them chocolate and Jacques gifted me with some of his fabulous maple syrup. Nice people. Great inn.





Call 802-334-2401 for reservations at the Cliff Haven Farm B&B.

Yellow Farm House Inn

I stayed at the Yellow Farm House Inn, while I toured Vermont. I stayed in Nicole for $129.00. It's a room with a one person hot tub. Looking back now, I should have stayed in Jacqueline because that room has an oversized Jacuzzi tub with view for only $10 more. It was a nice place and a decent breakfast.



Either way, the price was right. Nice rooms.