Showing posts with label the Breakers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Breakers. Show all posts

Friday, 24 October 2014

Our trip to the U.S.A (7)- Newport Mansions

After lunch with Marabeth, Andria and Marcia we moved on to visit a couple of the fantastic Newport Mansions.
It wasn't possible to visit all of them as there was no time and it would also cost us too much. So we simply made a choice after reading all the info here.
First we visited the Elms.


 Of course photography inside was not allowed. But it was lovely in there.
This we met when we came out of the house.


 And the walk in the gardens was as lovely too.










 And then we visited the Breakers, the Vanderbilt Mansion.


 We did the guided tour with the headphones too. It was very impressive.
As was the view.




 This fellow bid us good bye when we were leaving with a funny technique.  You can watch the video.

And these are the little souvenirs I bought at the lovely but expensive souvenir shop. A key ring with all the Mansions. Who knows maybe one day I will visit one of them again. A little box filled with quartz.
 And the book about the Mansions.
On the way back home we stopped at the town of Newport for a little while.....
(to be continued)
This blogpost is linked to Our Beautiful World.


Thursday, 16 October 2014

Our trip to the U.S.A (5)- Newport Cliff Walk

July 2nd 2014
We started early after a good coffee heading for Newport, Rhode Island.
First we stopped at a scenic view stop over Mystic River.

We definitely needed a selfie!
Look at that bridge!
 And that!
 When we arrived in Newport first we walked a bit on the Cliff Walk.
It was great. The day was gorgeous!The famous Newport mansions and all the other buildings were very inviting!
Ochre Court, Salve Regina University

 The Breakers, a Vanderbilt mansion.
 Nature was very beautiful too!



The cliffs looked dangerous but beautiful!



The walk on the cliff pathway was very easy...


...until we reached this beach....
Of course we had to go to see if there was any sea glass!
There was very little but it was nice looking there too! Mainly it was weeds.
Of course hubby found the best piece,
that big green one.
But we were in a hurry as we had an important meeting for lunch!
(To be continued.)