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After checking out at our motel, we headed up north for the White Mountains. On our way, we stopped over for an afternoon in a small town called Salisbury for a swim in the ocean waves.

On Friday, another cloudy day, we walked around the little town of Newport and it's Cliff Walk. Too bad with the weather, this colorful vacation place is best seen in bright sunshine...

The day after that, it cooled off quite a bit, clouded up and started drizzling. It wasn't going to keep us from going to Block Island, about 20 km off the Rhode Island coast. We did have to stop and buy sweaters first, though!

On this sunny summer day, we headed out to Cape Cod and spent the day at the beach.

After taking the Acela express train from New York to Providence, we picked up the rental car there, we checked in to our Motel in Newport. The following day we started out a "déja vu" trip to Seekonk and East Providence, where I'd lived during my U.S. highschool year. Later in the afternoon, we walked around Providence.

On our last full day in the "Big Apple", we started our day with a tour to Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty. After we'd already started out with more typically "tourist" things, we decided also to go on top of the Empire State building. Both entrance fees are worthwhile. After having had enough downtown experience, we took the subway all the way out to Coney Island. It was hot outside, and the beach was full of people. In the evening, we decided to go back to Brooklyn heights to get a night view of the Manhattan skyline.

On our second day in New York, we started out on 96th street and walked through Central park all the way down to its south end. It's amazing how peaceful and quiet this place is in the middle of this always-busy city! From there, we walked down Broadway towards Times Square, and over to Grand Central, both of which are quite impressive. We then took the subway towards Little Italy, where we had something to eat. On our way back home through Chinatown and over the Manhattan Bridge, we got into a heavy rainshower, which felt good after the hot day.

Starting from our home base in Brooklyn, we walked all the way down Fulton street towards downtown and through Brooklyn heights, a wealthy neighborhood looking over East river to Manhattan. After a short break and enjoying the view of the skyline, we continued our walk across Brooklyn bridge into Manhattan's financial district.