Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Introduction and Portsmouth, NH/ Kittery, ME

     Hello to all who find this blog and pass it on, my name is Shawn, I am a happily married, to the love of my life Joe, gay man who loves to travel and explore new places and things. In this Blog I want to share some of mine and my husbands travels. I will recommend places, and things not just for the LGBT community for for everyone, fun things that my husband and I have come across in and during our travels. Each day I will post a new place that we have visited and on a scale of 1 - 10, him and I will rate each place, 10 being the best. Over the past 6 years him and I have travelled far and near to different shopping malls, towns, states, restaurants, and more and we would like to share them all with you. I will post images of each place and with a caption underneath the image I will share our thoughts and scoring so to speak. In this first post I will be sharing with you one of our all time favorite places to visit, Portsmouth, NH. I hope you all enjoy. Thanks Again and Blessings Shawn and Joe.


 Welcome to Historic Portsmouth, NH. Our favorite place to visit, this small little town, has a large downtown center. The downtown area is packed full of quaint little mom and pop shops, all with awesome products, food, coffee houses, and more. Each summer, the whole downtown area is closed off for weekend street fairs. There is public parking in a few different places in this town, but you have to pay in each.Prices will vary on time spent parked if you pay a ticket machine for parking, you just put the ticket on your dashboard, this way you do not get a ticket from the meter maid. Each ticket has the time of expiration which, keep an eye on the time as time flies when walking through this awesome little city/ town for the day, and if you pay by coins you have to pay the meter. This is a real up beat awesome little city to visit, shop, walk, explore, and eat.
 Downtown shops, this is the main square in downtown Portsmouth, NH.

 Small little ally ways with shops line some of the street of this beautiful historic but up beat little town.

 
Main Street Portsmouth.

Now just North, 1 exit up on I-95 after the downtown Portsmouth exit, you have Kittery, ME and all of the outlets shops. Sorry I do not have any pictures of Kittery, but it is also an awesome area to visit, always lots of people there so be careful walking around as there is a lot of traffic. These shops are done real nice, great parking, and great prices. Joe recommends trying some of the seafood restaurants in either Portsmouth or Kittery and I say Steak Houses are the best, but to each his own. There is no paid parking here you just park in a plaza and start walking and shopping. Kittery Outlets is a lot more walking so be sure to bring comfy shoes. We simply cannot give an individual score to any one place in this town, as we love everything about it. Located right on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, there are parks, beach areas, downtown shops, and awesome restaurants everywhere. The whole trip including Kittery, ME we give a 10.

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