10 THINGS TO DO IN CAPE COD

1. Eat fudge and salt water taffy at the Fudge Shoppe on Main Street in Hyannis 2. Walk Craigville beach on a calm night with a full moon. Route 6, Exit 6. 3. Eat at Cooke's on Rt 28 in Hyannis. Get the clam roll. You have not visited the Cape until you have had one! 4. Go to the Xmas Tree shop to get your souvenirs. They are much cheaper than anywhere else. The shops are scattered throughout the Cape. 5. Go rollerblading on the path next to the Cape Cod Canal. Go over the Sagamore Bridge on Rt 6 Exit 2. Park under the bridge. 6. Go line dancing at the Irish Hotel on Rt 278 in Yarmouth on a Saturday night. 7. Go to Provincetown on a weekend and people watch! You will be thoroughly entertained. 8. Watch the airplanes take off at Hyannis airport. You probably will never get as close to a plane taking off as there. 9. Go to Sophie's bar for a hopping time on the weekend on Main St. in Hyannis. 10. Take the boat to Martha's Vineyard for the day!

Quick Tips:

Try to go to the Cape off season (September to May). It will be a lot less crowded, less expensive and the natives will treat you way better. The winter has drop dead prices at the hotels and the shopping is great. The beach is beautiful this time of year.

Best Way To Get Around:

You absolutely need a car to get around the Cape. There is no public transport and taxis are very hard to come by. If you are flying into Logan airport rent a car at the airport, it will be much cheaper than renting in the Cape and you have a ride back and forth from the airport.

It is only about an hour and a half drive from Boston and the drive is pretty straightforward. (Rt 93 to Rt 3) The Cape is at tne end of Route 3. The Sagamore bridge will be in front of you.

This restaurant has excellent Mexican food. The Cape is not known for its ethic dining. Fried Clams, yes but Burritos no. But the food here tastes authentic and the flavors of the food are distinctive and not merely thrown together like at Taco Bell. The atmosphere is like Jimmy Buffet met Pirate Ship and the magaritas are great.

The food is disgusting here. I cannot recommend a good Chinese restaurant on the Cape but this is definitely not a good choice no matter how desperate you are for Chinese food. They use too much grease so the food and restuarant itself smells bad. The decor and tables and chairs are dirty. The waiter we had the last time we went was argumentative. The food tastes like it has been under a warming light all day. Not fresh at all!