For reasons of no interest to anyone but us, we couldn’t stray far from home today, so we took the chance to take in a few of Groton’s many attractions. Few people outside of Groton know that Mystic is not all there is to our fair town.
This is the view from Fin’s Cafe, which is located at UConn’s Avery Point campus and is open to the public. We went there for lunch and had the place almost to ourselves.
This was the view of my meal (fish and chips), which was surprisingly good. It’s hard to make fish and chips that aren’t acceptable, but it’s also hard to make them especially good, and these were pretty darn good.
Here’s proof that we really were at Fin’s Cafe, in case anyone doubts it
And for those of you unfamiliar with the area, you might be surprised to learn that here is the view of Long Island Sound from the UConn Avery Point campus, taken from what was once the lawn of a turn of the (last) century robber baron, whose house you can see in the succeeding picture.
Groton is also blessed with a working farm, situated right in the middle of Town. Well, actually, Groton doesn’t have a middle of Town, but to the extent it does, this farm is right there. The field is populated by free range chickens and sheep. None of the latter were in evidence today, but the chicken were out in abundance, and are apparently quite used to being fed by visitors, as they came running when this Mom and her kids (who are hidden behind her) went up to the fence with some feed.
The farm stand sells eggs direct from the above depicted chickens, some produce, and local honey and maple syrup.
The farmer seemed like a very nice guy. We have been meaning to stop in for ages and finally took the opportunity today.
So much for our quick trip through Groton. Fireworks tonight, but we’ll be staying home.
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