-well there is a place called Bonnet Point in Bonnet Shores-not certain if you might know anyone there....
Middletown:
-First Beach/Easton's Beach good beach long sand historic carousel and aquarium there for kids....
-Second beach/Sachuest Beach: ~1.5 miles long...SURF!!!!Might find Rob, Eric (the best guy) and other good guys surfing there in the mornings that weekend
-Third Beach: small, faces back on the Sakonnet River so no waves for the most part next to a wildlife sanctuary...VERY nice
Middletown
-Newport Storm Brewery (friday 6pm free tour open to the first 75 people in line-get there about 5p to get in line)
-Newport Vineyards
-Coddingtons Brew Pub
Portsmouth
-Greenvale Vineyards in Portsmouth (hey stevo wanna go?)
Tiverton
-Sakonnet Vineyards in Tiverton RI
Westport Massachusetts
-Westport Vineyards & Buzzards Bay Brewery in Westport Mass
Bristol
-Mt Hope Farm Bristol RI: Beautiful old homestead with lots of walking trails!
-Colt State Park Bristol: a huge old farm that stretches along the water of Narragansett Bay-lots of walking areas and pretty good for kite flying
-East Bay Bike Path Bristol-Providence: 16 + miles of paved bike and walk way from Bristol to the capitol.
-Audubon Society of RI Environmental Education Center in Bristol: where Rob works-hopefully you will not see him there at the time of the wedding....
Portsmouth
-Oakland Forest Portsmouth RI: an old Growth Beech Forest that Rob learned about from a conference he attended-Absolutely beautiful and very rare for RI!
Newport
-Brenton Point State Park Newport: Want to see beautiful ocean AND kiteflying in the same spot????voted the 2nd best place in the country to fly a kite by USAToday
-Newport Cliff Walk: a beautiful paved walkway that stretches along the cliffs over First/Easton's Beach-nice walk
Middletown
-Sachuest Point Middletown: a birders delight-simple as that
Tiverton
-Weetamo Woods Tiverton: one of our Fav places....beautiful walks through an old forest
-Fort Barton Tiverton: another beautiful area-site of the last British Fort overlooking Narragansett Bay
Newport:
Brick Alley Pub
Salvation Cafe ****
Thai Cuisine *****
Yesterday's **
Middletown:
Coddingtons
Portsmouth:
Reidy's diner (breakfast is the best!)
Cool Scoops gelato!
Bristol:
AIDANS!!!!!*******
Tiverton:
Grey's Ice Cream
Narragansett:
Brickley's Ice Cream
According to Rob's uncle Bill there is a Red Sox game on monday in Boston (only about an hour or so from Bristol).
Check out these websites for more ideas of happenings.....
Bristol
Go Newport
Destination Newport
Newport online
Visit RI has a free travel guide that they can send you
We do know for a fact that the Newport JVC Jazz Festival is happening August 11,12,13-that means that Newport will be a little more packed than usual, but there will be great music there!!!!
Something cool and different: The Newport International Polo Series.
Every Saturday afternoon at 5pm, free admission, beautiful place in Portsmouth, and tailgating unlike football tailgating!!!!
dogs welcome
August 12th is Newport vs Philadelphia!!!!!!
Bristol: Northwind Sports 401.254.4295
Newport: Ten Speed Spokes 401.847.5609
Kayak Rentals:
Middletown EMS 401.846.6766
Sakonnet Boathouse in Tiverton 401.624.1440
Providence
Roger WIlliams Park Zoo
Newport
New England Aquarium Exploration Center at 1st Beach
Many day/1/2 day sailing crusies the harbor like Sightsailer or the Madeline
East Providence
Original Historic Carousel
Here is the children's attraction section from VisitRI.com
Block Island is only a ferry trip away-available from Newport or from South County.
Cape Cod is an hour drive East from where we are.
Boston is about an hour drive North of us.
New York City is about 4 hours South West of us as well.......