Martha’s Vineyard: Once Again, This Summer
Off the coast of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard gleam in the sun and persist to rule as the best summerplace since the 1800s. It’s also here that flushed men’s wallets are drained and credit cards are swiped to the max to be able savor the islands charms. But no matter the cost, Martha’s Vineyard remains the best summerplace in the heartland.
Martha’s Vineyard Six Towns
Martha’s Vineyard is a large island of 6 municipalities - Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, Vineyard Haven, West Tisbury, Chilmark, and Aquinnah. The island is a tourist’s haven of picturesque towns, stretches of the Nantucket Sound, warm summer afternoons, cool evening breezes, and great nightlife and shopping. There is glorious chow and endless drinks all worth the calories and the dollars in leather wallets.
Once you arrive the shoreline of Vineyard Haven, bobbing wooden colorful boats and the two tall ships of the famous Black Dog Company will salute you to America’s darling summerplace. Where to go? Once you gun your car off the ferry, you will have endless options. There are severalplaces that can feed your passions - shopping, sun bathing, feasting on seafood, movies, nature tripping, touring historical places, and celebrity house gawking.
Those in the know prefer to put up tent in selected areas rather than checking into tony hotels. They dine in off-the-beaten tracks where robust meals and drinks are served - all fit for royals with fat wallets and checkbooks.
Oaks Bluffs - Here, you will find the famous gingerbread houses, throbbing nightlife, and a bustling Circuit Avenue where the commercial strip is situated. Take home one of those canvas men’s wallets and passport wallet, quilted bedspreads, home decor, Indian printed cloths, and much more.
Edgartown - A charming New England Village with olden houses and a white church with tall spires. The plush enclaves in Edgartown offer expensive dining. But there is a cheaper spot that brags of tempting colonial flavors - mugs of draft root beer, the wheat ale topped with blueberries, and addictive fries in the Kelly House Hotel’s tavern.
Vineyard Haven has tasty seafood and the Net Result offers friendlier prices. Gorge on lobster, crab cakes, and sushi and gratify your sweet tooth at Mad Martha’s ice cream parlor. For movies, catch the latest blockbusters in New Haven and Edgartown, if sun, sea, and sand start to bore you.
Want a laidback summer? Chilmark, West Tisbury, and Aquinnah are the places to go. You won’t see the usual row of houses, but a tapestry of flourishing green woodlands, dirt roads, and the famed colorful cliff in Gay Head (Aquinnah).
Bike, hike, swim, dine on food, gulp all the drink, and have all the fun and leisure. At the end of summer, only your wallet may or may not be emptied, but what the heck? You had a long hot but entertaining summer.
