Well, we’ve just woken up to a lovely morning here in Hampton, NH… clear blue skies and a balmy -9c!

Today’s plan kinda looks like this…

Head back down Route/Road 1 and get on to 1A Ocean Blvd and take the coastal road up to Rye Harbor State Park then over to Portsmouth for a spot of shopping and sightseeing (if there is any) and then it’s back onto the 95 heading up towards Cape Elizabeth and Portland.
After that, who knows! It’s an open road and we have a full tank of petrol Happy days.

B’bye for now

Earlier today, while doing some routine Christmas present shopping on Amazon, I came across a product with a review that got my old noggin’ ticking over.

This product was: Bomb Cosmetics Finest Handmade Soaps Chunks Gift Set

Recently, I discovered the “One Click” buying feature on Amazon along with their Android app and needless to say… my Amazon activity has grown exponentially, anyhow, being a savvy consumer I read customer reviews to see what other people are saying (not that I pay any real attention to customer reviews).

Have a look at the highlighted review on this product within Amazon

I’ve read quite a few reviews on various different products and none that I’ve read so far have been quite so densely packed with keywords. We’ve got the company name appearing 3 times and variations of ‘soap‘ cropping up a significant amount of time yet if you look at the two reviews below it, there’s not a single mention of the company name, the word ‘soap‘ or anything closely related. How Bizarre.

Now let’s have a quick peek at some Google results.

You’ll see that Amazon crops up within Google (no real surprise there) and low-and-behold, “Chunks of Soap” by Bomb Cosmetics is there thanks to the review left by the “customer”.

Now, I’m not pointing the finger at Bomb Cosmetics or anyone else for that matter for shilling… but it does make you wonder, huh?

Do you trust customer reviews?

What a complete tit. This smart lady blocked both lanes while she fannied around doing a 5 point turn.

Congratulation, you’re a fucking idiot.

Well, we left New York to visit Boston and to keep a long story short… It was kind of pointless. The hotels were damned expensive, and the one’s that weren’t were miles away from the city centre.

Leaving Boston, we drove north along I95 where we stopped at a tourist information point with the biggest log fire I’ve ever seen, anyhow, they recommend a few good places to say in NH and here we are.
We’ve loaded up on maps and things to see, so first thing in the morning, we’re going to hit NH with a vengence and see what’s what.

Here are some pictures from along the way…

Well, after picking up the car and driving to the hotel, which was a mission in itself… We’re here! Woot

Time to freshen up a bit then hit the Big Apple

The hotel is a little bizzare. We can’t open the windows, the curtain don’t shut properly and the room has no ceiling lights, just table lamps. Ah well, its cheap and cheerful.

The car though, that’s nice. A brand new automatic Mitsubishi Endevour, in white. Think it’ll take a while to get use to driving on the right and undertaking on a 5 lane motorway. 5 lanes, that’s not normal!

Anyhow, we heading out to see what’s what

Day one, over and out.

I know it’s been a while but hopefuly over the coming weeks I’ll be able to update this place with new content – fresh pictures, amusing thoughts and random bit’s of gobbledygook.

We’ve got internet at home now – BT Infinity so now I’ve got no excuse not to update this place.

I’ll look at gathering some interesting content over the coming days and get it into some kind of order and online.

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