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Your Guide to Bed, Breakfast and Biking
Biking and hiking vacations are becoming more popular than ever. There are so many wonderful places to bike here on Cape Cod, whether you bring your own bike or rent one when you arrive, here is a handy helper, your Guide to Bed, Breakfast, and Biking ("the Bike/Hike Guide")!
MassBike - Better bicycling for Massachusetts - Members of MassBike, present your membership card to receive a 10% discount on a 2-night stay with us. Discount not applicable on packages and specials.
Planning a trip to Cape Cod? One of the best guidebooks is Kim Grant's "An Explorer's Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket". You can purchase a copy online from Amazon.com. The Seventh Edition is the most recent. You will be glad you purchased it.
If you love quilts as much as we do (we have them in all of our guest rooms), you will love these sites:
Dock Side Quilting - Professional Longarm Machine Quilting services
Heartbeat Quilts is a full service quilt shop located in Hyannis. The store offers over 6500 bolts of first quality cotton fabric, over 500 book titles, over 500 patterns, supplies for the crazy quilter, classes, quilt clubs and blocks of the month, Quilt Camps in So. Yarmouth, MA and North Conway, NH. Classes are taught by local instructors and nationally known teachers. This is a quilters candy store. You will think you have died and gone to Quilt Heaven.
The Sandwich Glass Museum is internationally renowned for the display of beautiful glass made in Sandwich between 1825 and 1888. Learn about early glass making in the U.S., enjoy glassblowing demonstrations, and see their current glass exhibit.
Heritage Museums & Gardens celebrates the American spirit on 100 acres of awarding winning gardens. J.K. Lilly III Antique Automobile Museum is there and don’t miss the American History Museum with the Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame. There is also an art museum with a restored and running 1912 carousel.
The Thornton W. Burgess Museum is dedicated to the man who wrote Peter Rabbit and to nature education. The Greenbrier Nature Center is part of this organization. Enjoy walking trails and learn jam making and herb gardening.
If you love golf, you'll love Holly Ridge, a classic New England, par 54 golf gourse, designed by Geoffrey Cornish, nestled among the hollies and pines of Sandwich. A Golf Digest "Best Places to Play" and a "Top 100 in America" practice facility and learning facility. Check it out.
Are you a mandolin player or do you just love music? If you would like to attend mandolin camp in Sandwich, here is a website you should visit http://www.nemandolins.com.
The Cape Cod Melody Tent offers world class entertainment. The 2008 season includes Ani DiFranco, Michael McDonald, B B King, Lyle Lovett, Indigo Girls, The Beach Boys, Kenny Rogers, Sugarland, Bill Cosby, Huey Lewis & The News, and many more. Check their website for the full schedule.