On to Connecticut and a Great Dinner

What a fantastic day we had on Tuesday. We left Tarrytown at 9AM and drove to Connecticut, which has some beautiful marinas along Long Island Sound. We also stopped at Bryam PArk in Bryam CT, a place Dottie and I had been to many times as kids to sleigh ride. It was really more of a day of memories, than anything else. But first marinas....and there are hundreds of them in CT.
Here are a few pictures:

The Del Mar Marina in Greenwhich CT caters mostly to Super or Mega yachts. Pictured is a 181' Benetti Yacht




A Westport 112, my favorite and most sought after yacht





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Cost....$22M new... this one happens to be for sale, at a mere $12M.

From Greenwich, we drove a few minutes north to the Stamford Landing Marina where we had a terrific lunch at the Crab Shell Restaurant. I had the Crab Shells Lunch and Dottie had a salad. Stamford is noted for both it's boats and cars, like the yellow Ferari pictured below.

In fact, Route 1 between Greenwich and Stamford boasts a Rolls Royce dealer, a Ferrari, Maserti, Bugati, McLaren,and Bentley dealerships along with numerous Lexus', Mercedes, and whatever else type of luxury car "you can think of" dealerships.

Of course a yellow Ferrari complements either of the two yachts pictured above.

After lunch we drove south on US 1 to Rye, NY, Mamaroneck, Larchmont and New Rochelle. I stopped at my high school Alma Mater in New Rochelle, Salesian High, just to reminise a bit with Dottie. Nothing much changed at the school as it looked exactly the same as it did when I attended in the late 60's.

From New Rochelle, it is a 10 mile ride along Shore Road to the Bronx, and on to the Parisi household, where we picked up Jimmy and Helene and went to dinner at a small, quaint neighborhood restaurant called Rino's Ristorante. These are the type of places I miss the most of living in upstate, NY. The food and service is nothing short of excellent.

Dottie and Helene both had the Osso Bucco, and Jimmy and I had Veal Sorrentino. Many thanks to Gaspare and his staff, especially Arturo.

We were back in Tarrytown and on the Lucky Find III by 10:30PM, all in all a great day.

P.S. I lost my cell phone, somewhere between CT and "Da Bronx", however, I dialed my number from Dotties phone and a Latina woman answered, explained she had just found it outside the Dunkin Donuts in New Rochelle, and I could meet her at a place called Chat 19 in Larchmont, NY. at 9PM.....I did, she did and the rest is history.

Thank you very much for returning my phone.