City of amherst

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Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:17:35 +0000

The Amherst/Northampton area has a lot of great restaurants, some festivals, quite a few independent theaters, good coffeeshops with live jazz (more so if you go in to Northampton, which also has some great small music venues). If you go north of Amherst a bit, there are some gorgeous hiking trails. It’s a good mix of metropolitan and beautiful rural scenery.

Boston is a 1.5-2 hour trip, NYC is 3 hours. Montreal is a fairly plausible weekend trip.

This weekend there is chocolate festival going on in historic Deerfield, a beautiful quaint nearby town. The oldest peace pagoda in the Western hemisphere is about 10 miles north. It’s a nice place to be.