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CTMQ > Newington

Nigeria: Naija

February 21, 2025 by Steve 1 Comment

Taking a Poundo on the Chin-Chin CT Food Tour of the World at Naija, Newington November 2024 Straight up, this will be a difficult page to write. I cannot find a single review of this restaurant. No explanations, no experiences... nothing to help guide me. Sure, I ate there and know the names of most of what I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Ethnic Restaurants, Food Tour of the World, gray hair gang, Newington, nigeria

Enoch Kelsey House

February 10, 2025 by Steve 3 Comments

Enoch is Enoch Enoch Kelsey House, Newington January 2025 Connecticut museum visit #543. I knew something was off. Funny, even. The Enoch Kelsey House, a rarely open gem in the center of town, bent over backwards to accommodate my visit. Okay, maybe not to a great extent, but it's not typical for rarely-open … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Newington, newington historical society, Rarely Open

CTfastrak Multi-Use Trail

December 6, 2023 by Steve 1 Comment

Hoodie Ride Newington & New Britain November 2023 A month before Christmas Calvin and I went on a quickie 10-mile out and back jaunt along the CTfastrak bike trail. He was was too big for his bike at the time, but this would be the last ride before we traded up to an adult bike. The kid is 5'7" now and is still … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bike Trails, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, cycling, New Britain, Newington

Mortensen’s Ice Cream

February 24, 2023 by Steve 1 Comment

Stick to Ice Cream, Leave the Puns to Me Mortensen's Ice Cream, Newington January 2023 I'm 50 as I write this. I've lived within 10 miles of Mortensen's for decades. And I rather like good ice cream. Which is why it's really weird that this is the first time I'd ever had Mortensen's ice cream in my life. In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails, New Post Tagged With: CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail, Damian, Newington

Churchill Bridge

February 6, 2023 by Steve 1 Comment

Taking a Gambrel on the Design Churchill Covered Bridge, Newington One of my favorite CTMQ readers once wrote a comment regarding one of these newer, uglier covered bridges, "Even the classics we all love were new once." Indeed. That doesn't mean that these random, rather non-functional covered bridges … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Towers, Bridges, Forts, Tunnels, Roads, Canals, Dams, Fishways, Airports, & Ferries Tagged With: Covered Bridges, Newington

National Iwo Jima Memorial

February 1, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Oorah! National Iwo Jima Memorial, Newington & New Britain We all have "those things" that we live near that we just never check out. Be it a museum or a hike or restaurant or whatever. I think the unconscious thinking is, "I live nearby, so it's easy to get to, so I'll make the effort someday." The National … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art, Superlatives Tagged With: Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Military History, Monuments and Plaques, New Britain, Newington

Cedar Mountain and Balf Nature Preserve

January 26, 2023 by Steve 1 Comment

Okay Balf Cedar Mountain and Balf Nature Preserve, Newington January 2023 If you happen to be a Newington resident and have read some of the other pages I've written about Newington trails, you're probably gritting your teeth preparing for another smarmy screed from me. I can hear you from here... "here we go, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Great Views, Newington

Newington Greenway

January 22, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

F Greenway Trail Newington Greenway, Newington January 2023 If you have found yourself on this page, congratulations! It's one of those that I've written and published but didn't give it tags to stand out on the site and I never mentioned it on social media. In fact, it's one of those pages I shouldn't be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Newington

Indian Hill Trail

January 19, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

A Proper Troll Indian Hill Trail, Newington January 2023 Oh Newington, you vexing mistress, you. First, you go and elect a guy with my name as mayor (He didn't run in 2016, but whatever). Then you claim to have the "world's smallest waterfall" which is just the dumbest thing - that screams out for me to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Newington

Robert Stanley Nature Trail

January 9, 2023 by Steve 1 Comment

Mighty Phragmites Robert Stanley Nature Trail, Newington January 2023 Newington has a lot of sports fields for a town its size. It doesn't have very many trailed properties, but it does publish a trails guide. Most of the hikes in that guide are walks along suburban streets to connect the town's parks. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Newington

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