Boston to New York city, via New Haven

Between work and camping and the inevitable nature of time (it passes!), our American holiday is receding into the past more rapidly than seems right. I shall try to get my final few American posts written before my memories recede too!

Yale University, New Haven

After our two nights in Boston, we drove the 4 (ish) hours to New York city, our final destination before returning home. On the way, though, we stopped at New Haven, Connecticut, for petrol and lunch. This wasn't a planned destination - New Haven just happened to be about the right distance along the drive.


Given my love of old and famous universities, it is with a certain amount of shame that I admit the following: I didn't know that New Haven was home to Yale University. Is this common knowledge to the rest of the world? Clearly, I know now and was delighted to discover it when we wandered the town.

Yale University, New Haven

Like Hanover with Dartmouth College, New Haven really is a university town. And, again like Hanover with Dartmough College, it had a fresh and flexible feel to it. Happily, it also had lots of veggie food.

I bought my lunch from Claire's Corner Copia, a fully vegetarian cafe that does breakfast, lunch and dinner. It was a popular spot when we visited. Mr Bite had set his heart on a panini option he'd seen around the corner, so he visited a different cafe (the name of which I don't remember) and we convened to eat in the central square.

I chose an Asian coleslaw salad for my lunch, which in hindsight is an odd choice. I don't like regular coleslaw at all, so even an Asian style one was risky. Plus, the menu had many things I ought to have preferred. Still, sometimes we are fickle, and clearly that day was such a day for me. Fortunately being fickle paid off, as the salad was great and a light soy and ginger dressing offset the vegetables perfectly.

The only downside of New Haven was that it took us whole minutes to figure out how to exit the car park. We thought you need to pay at a machine before exiting. This was quite wrong. After a long walk around the car park, we did figure this out, but clearly we were not up to Yale standards in our deductive abilities.

Once out of the car park, though, we were on our way to New York! That will come in splendid detail in a future post - but I will leave you with a stereotypical glimpse of the city.

Have you visited places without realising until you arrived that they housed famous sites / centres / landmarks?

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