New England Travel and Vacation Gazette and Other Wicked Good Content

Article and photo (2008 photo of Big Apple Farm, Wrentham, Mass.) by Eric H. If you're overwhelmed on where to start when traveling the six New England states during the fall foliage season, we have a resource to make autumn trip planning easier. The VisitingNewEngland.com "Best New England Fall Foliage Travel Destinations, Vacations and Scenic Drives" offers tips on places we have been to and regard as scenic, fun and relevant autumn New England fall travel spots. We cover a wide variety of New England fall foliage season information, including our favorite vacation destinations and hotel getaways, dining spots tailor-made for autumn, best leaf peeping spots, driving tours, hikes, day trips, apple picking and apple cider recommendations. Realizing that you might have a limited amount of time to travel -- like, perhaps, a weekend -- we feel that our "New England Fall Travel Guide" acts as sort of a "greatest hits" of New England fall foliage season t...

One of our Twitter followers, http://twitter.com/RuthieB2 , just gave us a great autumn tip, stating the "Connecticut Wine Trail is a fantastic trip for a cool fall day." The Connecticut Wine Trail takes visitors through 20 vineyards in some of Connecticut's most picturesque towns. This eastern and western Connecticut excursion offers award-winning wines. All wineries are members of the Connecticut Vineyard and Winery Association. The wineries include: Bishop's Orchards Winery and Farm Market, Guilford Chamard Vineyards, Clinton DiGrazia Vineyards, Brookfield Gouveia Vineyards, Wallingford Haight-Brown Vineyards. Litchfield Heritage Trail Vineyards, Lisbon Hopkins Vineyard, New Preston Jerram Winery, New Hartford Jonathan Edwards Winery, North Stonington Jones Winery, Shelton Land of Nod Winery, East Canaan Maugle Sierra Vineyards, Ledyard McLaughlin Vineyards, Sandy Hook Miranda Vineyard, Goshen Priam Vineyards, Colchester Rosedale Farms & Vineyard, Simsbury Shar...

Article and photo by Eric H, at VisitingNewEngland.com One of our favorite day trips is traveling to the postcard-picture perfect town of Pomfret, CT, enjoying the rolling country hills, shaded country roads, expansive traditional New England village green and dining at the special Vanilla Bean Cafe. A charming, converted, renovated 1800s farmhouse, the Vanilla Bean Cafe will warm your heart and fill your hearty appetite with its great breakfasts, lunches and dinners in a casual, cozy setting. The dining experience perfectly complements the laid-back, relaxing feel of this area known as the "Quiet Corner" of northeastern Connecticut as it's almost like an indoor community village green where people come to meet over a cup of fresh coffee and delicious homemade meals. What's more, the Vanilla Bean becomes an entertainment spot on Saturday night with folk singers (some famous including past performances from Geoff Muldaur and Lori McKenna). With pleasant outdoor seati...