By Hilary Nangle on October 10, 2011
Maine’s Blue Hill Peninsula exudes the essence of what what many people picture when they dream about the Maine coast. It’s off the beaten track, a rolling landscape carved in granite, fringed with spruce, splashed with ponds, sprinkled with galleries, salted with farmsteads, and peppered with those classic big house-little house-back house-barn houses that art [...]
Posted in Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Maine Made, Moon guidebook updates, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged bagaduce forge, Bagaduce Lunch, bakeries, bets's sunflower, blossom studio, Blue Hill Peninsula, Brooklin, brooklin inn, Brooksville, buck's harbor market, bucks restaurant, Eggemoggin Textile STudio, fourseason farm, galleries, good life center, Handmade papers, Hiram Blake Camps, holbrook island sanctuary, mainehooked rugs, Mermaid woolens, Oakland House, paul heroux, Puschart Press Bookstore, Reach Road Gallery, restaurants, scott goldberg, sedgewick antiques, Sedgwick, sow's ear winery, the cave, tinder hearth bakery, Wooden Boat |
By Hilary Nangle on September 5, 2011
A reader asked: “I want to visit Maine and stay at a motel/hotel cottage/guest house where I can have a view of the harbour and watch the lobster being unloaded. Any ideas?” I sure do. Here are five accommodations that provide a view over working lobster wharves. • Tidewater Motel, Vinalhaven Island Really, you can’t [...]
Posted in Acadia, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Down East Coast, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Motels, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Elsa's inn, Harbor House, Inn at the Wharf, Inn on the Harbor, inns overlooking lobster wharves, Jonesport, Lubec, Moose-a-bec Manor, Prospect Harbor, Stonington, Tidewater Motel, Vinalhaven |
By Hilary Nangle on June 5, 2011
Once each year, seven land-accessible lighthouses along the mid-Maine coast open their towers for the Midc0ast Maine Lighthouse Challenge, a two-day self-guided driving tour covering the coastline from Pemaquid Point, tipping the Pemaquid Peninsula dangling south of Damariscotta, to Castine, on the western edge of the Blue Hill peninsula. Included on the tour* are Dyce’s [...]
Posted in Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Events, Mid-Coast, Penobscot Bay, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Castine, Dyce's Head Lighthouse, Fort Point Light, Grindle Point Light, Historic Inns of Rockland, Islesboro, Maine Lighthouse Challenge, Maine Lighthouse Museum, Marshall Point light, Owls Headlight, Pemaquid, Pemaquid Point lighthouse, Penobscot Marine Museum, Port Clyde, Rockland, Rockland Breakwater light, Searsport, Stockton Springs |
By Hilary Nangle on May 24, 2011
Maine is world renowned for its lobster, and there are plenty of ways to enjoy it. Eating it, of course, is one way, but you can also enjoy a festival celebrating the bugs, or watch races between lobsterboats (fierce competition), or go out on one and learn about and perhaps take part in how the [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Down East Coast, Events, Food, Greater Portland, Mid-Coast, Penobscot Bay, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, When to go, Where to go | Tagged Capt. Jack, Frenchboro Lobster Festival, lobster, lobster festivals, lobster shacks, lobster tours, Lucky Catch, Lulu, Maine Lobster Festival, Winter Harbor Lobster Festival |
By Hilary Nangle on May 16, 2011
Two of my favorite Maine oceanfront inns—Grey Havens and the Blue Hill Inn—have big news for the 2011 season. Grey Havens, Georgetown, Maine After a few years of stormy seas, Grey Havens is open as a full-service inn with restaurant, under the new ownership of experienced innkeeper Eve Roesler, with her husband, Dick, and cousin [...]
Posted in Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Deals, Food, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Mid-Coast, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Blue Hill, Blue Hill Inn, Devin Finigan, dinner, Georgetown, Grey Havens, restaurant |
By Hilary Nangle on April 9, 2011
Want to add some value to your Maine vacation dollar? Instead of simply lazing away a summer vacation, pair it with an opportunity to learn something new. Conquer nature-deficit disorder with a family immersion into the great outdoors on an island. Learn to paddle a sea kayak, craft furniture by hand, build a boat, play [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Down East Coast, Greater Portland, Maine Highlands, Mid-Coast, Penobscot Bay, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Bar Harbor, Bay Saiing School, Bradford Camps, Brooklin, Carpenter's Boatshop, center for Furniture Crafsmanship, College of the Atlantic Family Nature Camp, Grain Surfboards, Hog Island Audubon Camp, Island Kayaki-camping, L.L. Bean Outdoor Discovery School, Lubec, Maine Fiddle Camp, Maine Guide's License, Maine Outdoor Learning Center, Pemaquid, Penobscot School, Rockland, Rockport, Shelter Institute, Sikorski Seminar, Summerkeys, Surfboard building camp, Wooden Boat School, Woodturning school, Woolwich |
By Hilary Nangle on March 19, 2011
As I sit here at 4:40 on a Saturday afternoon, I’m still amazed at the sunshine; thank you Daylight Savings Time. What a difference it makes to those of us in Maine, where the days are woefully short in the throes of winter. I think this burst of light, accompanied by some very springlike temperatures [...]
Posted in Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Cabins & Cottages, Deals, Food, Greater Portland, Hotels, Inns & B&Bs, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Lodging, Mid-Coast, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay, Resorts, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Boathouse, Brooksville, Brunswick, Camden, Fat Boy, Hartstone Inn, Lily bistro, Oakland House, Petite Jacqueline, Port Clyde Seafood Co., Portland, Portland Harbor Hotel, Rockland, Saddleback, Sugarloaf, Thomaston |
By Hilary Nangle on March 9, 2011
I love this Maine Innkeepers Association program, which gives travelers a great deal on Maine lodging—B&Bs, inns, hotels, even resorts—in some very desirable locations. Even better, it helps support local chapters of Habitat for Humanity. Here’s the deal: Between April 25 and May 27, 2011, more than 30 accommodations are offering a limited number of [...]
Posted in Acadia, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Deals, Greater Portland, Hotels, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Mid-Coast, Motels, Penobscot Bay, Resorts, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Bar Harbor, Bass H arbor, Blue Hill, Boothbay Harbor, Brooklin, Camden, Cape Elixabeth, Deer Isle, Ellsworth, FreeportKennebunkport, Maine Hospitality for Habitat, Maine Innkeepers Association, Newcastle, Ogunquit, Old Orchard Beach, Orland, Rockland, Rockport, Sebasco Estates, Waldoboro, Wellsl |
By Hilary Nangle on January 16, 2011
Now I’ll be the first to admit that Stonington, at the tip of Maine’s Blue Hill/Deer Isle peninsula, isn’t the most happening town in February, but if you’re looking for a romantic Valentine’s Day weekend winter escape, you’ll be hard pressed to find a better deal than that offered by the Inn on the Harbor. [...]
Posted in Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Deals, Food, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Deer Isle, Inn on the Harbor, lobster, Stonington |
By Hilary Nangle on November 22, 2010
Maine has an official art museum trail, a maritime heritage trail, an architecture trail, even a garden and landscape trail. It doesn’t have a chocolate trail, but it should. So I’ve created one based on the must-stop chocolate shops salting the coast from Kittery to Calais. Yes, there are more mainstream chocolate shops–Len Libby’s, in [...]
Posted in Acadia, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Down East Coast, Food, Greater Portland, Mid-Coast, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged artisan chocolate shops, Bar Harbor, ben & bills chocolate, Black Dinah Chocolatiers, Cacao Chocolates, Cape Neddick, chocolate, DeansSweets, Divine Chocolates, Georgetown, Harbor Candy shop, Isle au Haut, katie's on the cove, Kittery, Lubec, Maine Coast, mainssweets, Monica's chocolates, Ogunquit, Orr's Island, portlandisland camdy company, Robbinston |
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