Helen’s Travel Corner

I’ve found a slight new obsession to waste time with online.  It’s called Photosynth. It’s a new project hailing from Microsoft Live Labs but I don’t think many people have heard of it yet.  If you have, it may be because of the CNN Obama inauguration day.  That day, CNN’s iReport took all of the photos [...]

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For the Memorial Day weekend I headed down to Portsmouth, Rhode Island which neighbors the popular tourist destination of Newport.  Because I was staying with a friend, I got the local tour of the island of Aquidneck which is home to both towns.  The tour included a stop at the Rhode Island tradition of Del’s [...]

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Since I moved to Boston in the fall of 2006, my Uncle Tim who lives in New York had wanted to take me to Kelly’s, a beachside establishment since 1951.  Tim raved about the lobster rolls that a Harvard student once introduced to him.  Kelly’s website and menu highlights roast beef, but really the lobster [...]

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