Southampton: A South Coast Sailing Port
Southampton is known for being home to sustainable sailors (and is one of the world’s busiest cruise ports). It’s also sadly the place, where the luxury ship Titanic set sail, for its final voyage. Before it hit an iceberg and sank, in 1912.
If at the coast, read our post on keeping dogs safe by the seaside.
Not just about boats, Southampton is home to the world’s oldest bowling green and used to be where writer Jane Austen lived (she wrote the novel Sense and Sensibility while living here).
The Hamptons (visit another Southampton!)
Just a short drive from New York City is The Hamptons, a set of two affluent towns (Southampton and East Hampton) along with beautiful villages. It’s known as the East End, but not like our version!
Known for being home to swanky millionaires, it takes price in it’s community beach cleans and even has its own website The Shopkeepers to promote local small businesses and Amber Waves Farm (a non-profit teaching farm).
Bookhampton is an indie bookstore founded by a renowned art dealer, who bought it to save it from development.
Bookstores are genuinely useful to me. I like picking things up, reading the dust jackets. The great thing about a bookstore, is that you’ll go in looking for one thing, and come out with five. Larry Gagosian
