Small towns you like - Page 2

rokdog49 · #16 03-17-2019, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Brucebubs

I live in a small coastal town halfway between Melbourne and Sydney.
Eden, New South Wales.

The main wharf in this picture is undergoing extension work to allow passengers to embark/disembark from large cruise liners.

Wow Bruce,
I'm jealous...very cool place!

Dru Edwards · #17 03-17-2019, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Mooh

I'm with OP Dru Edwards, Lunenburg NS is lovely. I like Greenfield NS as well.

Also on my list would be Wiarton, Lion's Head, and Minden Ontario, and just about anywhere on Prince Edward Island.

Hey Mooh, I'll have to check out Greenfield. Just found it on the map. I go for a lot of NS Saturday day trips with my cousin and visit a lot of spots off the map.

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Originally Posted by srick

Dru - as I remember it, there is a sign by the docks in Lunenberg that mentions how many of the founders came from my neck of the woods in Connecticut. They were loyalists to the king (during our revolution)and were driven away from their farms in the towns of Burlington, Thomaston and Plymouth, Connecticut. For many months, they stayed in an area known as ‘Tory’s Den’ before they made the move north.

It really brought home the tragedy of this war, as neighbor was pitted against neighbor (That’s a subject that’s often a very small sidebar in our history books). Fortunately, the refugees found a really nice spot in NS! Looks like they did pretty well for themselves, too.

Rick, I'll have a closer look next time I'm there. Yea, lots of Loyalists came this way from the US. Saint John, NB is known as the Loyalist City.

RP · #18 03-17-2019, 06:55 AM

In no particular order I'd add the following to the list:

Bar Harbor, Maine
Sanibel, Florida
Charlottesville, VA

Gitfiddlemann · #19 03-17-2019, 07:22 AM

Lots of little towns I like in Canada and the US, but one that sticks in my mind is a village in Germany, Rothenburg ob der Taube.

Touristy, sure, but not at all in a bad way. Walking around there, having something to eat and drink (like the local Franken wine) feels like you've been transported somewhere into a make believe world. Warm, friendly people, old cobblestone roads and architecture, inns and shops. Lots of similar villages in that country, but none quite with the same charm.
Maybe it's changed now, but that's how I remember it.

Dirk Hofman · #20 03-17-2019, 07:40 AM

San Luis Obispo California

Otterhound · #21 03-17-2019, 07:50 AM

Cowan and Sewanee in Tennessee are 2 such places . The entire area is beautiful with the Cumberland Plateau either under your feet or next to you .

Dru Edwards · #22 03-17-2019, 08:45 AM

Wow, what a beautiful place. Are you in a place that gets snow?

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Originally Posted by Brucebubs

I live in a small coastal town halfway between Melbourne and Sydney.
Eden, New South Wales.

The main wharf in this picture is undergoing extension work to allow passengers to embark/disembark from large cruise liners.

AmericanEagle · #23 03-17-2019, 10:34 AM

Ogunquit Maine

Mr. Paul · #24 03-17-2019, 10:47 AM

We would make day trips to Westlcliffe, CO from Denver, 3 hours each way. Loved it so much we moved here. World class hiking and mountain climing, a lifetime of adventure.

And a grocery store and theater, which is nice.

gfirob · #25 03-17-2019, 11:17 AM

Rochester, Vermont, right in the Green Mountains in the center of the State, on Scenic Rt 100, halfway between Killington and Stowe.

https://vimeo.com/150622696

PeteCady · #26 03-17-2019, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by gfirob

Rochester, Vermont, right in the Green Mountains in the center of the State, on Scenic Rt 100, halfway between Killington and Stowe.

https://vimeo.com/150622696

I'm right over the mountains on 73, and south about 8 miles - Pittsford. I get to Rochester a LOT more often in the last year or so, since I discovered Jake Wildwood's operation...

JCave · #27 03-17-2019, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Paul

And a grocery store and theater, which is nice.

Not a traffic light in sight.

I could be very happy there.

6L6 · #28 03-17-2019, 12:39 PM

Truckee, CA

Sockets Harbor, NY

Idaho Springs, CO

frankmcr · #29 03-17-2019, 01:00 PM

It's been a long time, but . . . Burford, Windrush, Shipton-under-Wychwood . . .
Bourton-on-the Water . . .

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WYzdPqqLER...0/P1000263.JPG

. . . all that area.

Brucebubs · #30 03-17-2019, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Wow, what a beautiful place. Are you in a place that gets snow?

No snow on any coastal part of mainland Australia Dru - Tasmania would be the exception.
I would need to drive to the Australian Alpine Region - probably about 5 hours or so from Eden.