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I am trying to put together a list of "must dos" for my September trip to Cape Cod. We are a group of 6 women, ages early 40s to early 60s. This is not a particularly athletic group. We would like to do mainly sightseeing, with some shopping and a little beach time. We will be staying at Brewster Green. This a group of west-coasters. No one has spent anytime in Cape Cod before. We have one week there beginning September 6, and then will be going to Newport, RI for a second week. We will be staying at Wyndham Long Wharf for that week. All suggestions appreciated. Thanks!
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Whale Watching trip is a must. http://www.capecodchamber.org/listings?category_id=36
Day Trip to Boston http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractio...achusetts.html
Trip to Provincetown http://www.provincetowntourismoffice.org
Visit the Christmas tree Shops http://www.christmastreeshops.com/frames.html
Go to the Beach!
Day trip to Nantucket Island from Hyannis http://www.nantucket.net http://www.nantucketchamber.org/explore http://www.steamshipauthority.com/ssa/index.cfm
Visit the Kennedy's http://jfkhyannismuseum.org/about/ http://www.kennedylegacytrail.com -
Try the fish and chips at Clancy's(with a view of the Swan river) or Chapin's in Dennisport. (there is a varied menu).
Check to see if the drive-n movies are open in Welfleet.Comment
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Love Clancys. Always went for lunch when I visited my parentsOriginally posted by tonyg View PostComment
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What a great trip you have planned! I second P-Town, Nantucket, and the Kennedy compound (not sure how much of it you can see, though). Get a mansion pass in Newport. Eat lots of lobster everywhere!Comment
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Take the tour of the Cape Cod Potato Chip factory in Hyannis early in the week and stock up on potato chips! Although the chips are cheaper at grocery stores.
For shopping, I love Ocean State Job Lot and Cuffy's for their magnificent heavyweight sweatshirts. There's a store called Soft as a Grape in Falmouth that actually smells like grapes when you walk in. We've never bought anything there, but we've had many happy moments discussing how soft a grape is, really.Comment
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In Sandwich there is a Heritage Museum and Gardens. it was quite a nice tour. We are going to the Cape in october.Comment
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Sandwich also has the glass museum, where you can watch a glass blower doing her thing. I went there this summer and enjoyed the visit.Originally posted by rapmarks View Post
Depending on when you're on the Cape, you might be able to get free lighthouse tour. I went up several lighthouses this summer and that was great too. Try Chatham light for a great view...
For food, I REALLY like "Not your Average Joe's" at the Mall in Hyannis. Also, brought my dad to Pate's for his birthday this summer and that's his favorite place (and he eat's out A LOT!!!).
If you like Japanese food, the Inaho in Yarmouth Port is one of my favorites. The Misaki is good too.
My family lives on the Cape and have been summering there every year since childhood and love the Cape.Comment
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Wow! Thanks for all the great suggestions. No one mentioned Martha's Vineyard. Looks like it is a couple of hours away. Is it worth a trip?Comment
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I never knew that Not Your Average Joe's was in Hyannis. thanks. sometimes you want a meal where you know what you can expect. we are thinking of going to Nantucket and to Martha's Vineyard this trip, as we had only rain on our previous stay and didn't do much. but wht do you do once you get there?Comment
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I think I've been to Nantucket (or else it was Martha's Vineyard?) and it was pretty, but it was a longish trip from Hyannis on the slow ferry. (There's also a fast ferry, more expensive.) When we got there, it was a nice walking-around area with shops, and there was a nice beach that was within walking distance of the ferry slip, and there were nice restaurants, all very pretty, but...I don't know if I would bother to go over if I was already on the Cape. I may well have missed something, but it didn't seem significantly different from any of a number of quaint little towns on Cape Cod.
Most of the people I know who love Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard go there for a week or more at a time, so they love them as places to stay.
One thing that we love and I forgot to mention before is Wood's Hole. There's a small aquarium there and you can tour the Oceanographic Institute, and there are restaurants and other activities. If you are up to it, you might enjoy Ocean Quest--boats that take you out on a tour and teach you about marine science. As part of the trip, they drop lobster pots into the ocean and explain what they catch. I still remember being amazed at the toadfish...it croaked just like a toad!
http://www.whoi.edu/
The page for Ocean Quest also has helpful info on getting to Woods Hole. I suspect that parking might be easier after Labor Day, but they're right, it's tough to park there!
http://www.oceanquest.org/
Also, if you have anyone up for biking, the Shining Sea bike path is beautiful. I have a friend who goes to Cape Cod every year just for the biking.Comment
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thanks for the information, Wacky Mother. I am not much for walking around a town and looking in shops. We enjoyed Woods Hole, went there on two separate days.Comment
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I never even heard of Joe's until my parents suggested the place, and I've come to realize that it's a small chain. I wish the chain would go national, love the menu, kinda reminders me of the Cheesecake Factory meets Fridays and has a baby called Joe.Originally posted by rapmarks View Post
The Cape and the Islands are very similar.... beach.... shop..... eat..... shop..... sight-see ....bicycle.....take in a sunset.... walk along the beach..... take a walk......... rinse and repeatComment
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I much prefer Nantucket to the Vineyard, but haven't been to the latter in many years. It's another island, another ferry.Originally posted by catwgirl View PostComment
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There's a cool-sounding theatre festival in PTown starting Sept. 9th:
http://www.afterglowfestival.org/
AFTERGLOW is a gathering to Provincetown of both renowned and under-the-radar innovative stage artists evolving the world of live performance.
The Afterglow Festival honors Provincetown as the birthplace of Modern American Theater, recapturing its evolutionary spirit by presenting staged works from performing artists across a wide spectrum of forms.
Afterglow serves as a destination for international and regional stage artists to express their inimitable creativity and innovation while re-establishing this peerless seaside community as a home for vanguard stagecraft.
This festival fills a niche in the Provincetown arts scene long left vacant. In a performance landscape of community theater productions and summer nightclub entertainment, Afterglow galvanizes progressive, new artists and audiences.
The festival name recognizes the season in which it occurs, post Labor Day and the full glare of summer, a most beautiful and inspiring time in Provincetown. Afterglow invites both performers and the public to bask in artistic expression.
Conceived by John Cameron Mitchell and Quinn Cox, Afterglow renews the centennial artistic bond between Greenwich Village and Provincetown, enriching the cultural heritage of this great Cape Cod hamlet, making it a post-seasonal destination for international artists and audiences alike.
The Afterglow Festival operates as a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501 (c)(3) organization serving the arts community-at-large. Contributions made to the Afterglow Festival are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.Comment
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