To Maine. Girlahead had been to that marvellous state, entering it from New Hampshire in the south, just to get as far as Kennebunkport. This time was going to be different. It was a four-day tourist trip.

The Inn at Hastings Park is the luxury Relais & Chateaux inn in historic Lexington MA that Trisha Pérez Kennealy built - well, not physically, but effectively. This incredibly extroverted and talented Puerto Rican-American decided long before she was a well-established investment banker that she wanted to have her own restaurant and hotel.

It is well worthwhile while staying at The Inn in Hastings Park to beg, borrow or steal bicycles. There seem to be more green-painted cycle roads around here than anywhere else in USA. You can certainly go all the seven miles to Harvard from Lexington.

Four Seasons One Dalton is the Boston hotel that makes you feel young again, or still young. Although this is a business hangout, the ambiance at its signature Zuma restaurant is 20s achievers and 20s heirs, kids who might be studying at Harvard, but thanks to daddy, have enough money to hang out here every night.