Portsmouth

Figure 1.0 Shadows fall upon some shops in Portsmouth

No talk about Merrowvista could be complete unless you pay a passing mention to portsmouth. If a staff member has a day off eight out of ten times (statiscally proven) they'll head to Portsmouth. Not that there is anything wrong with that at all, I might add just a perculiarity given there are other cool towns like North Conway (where two out of ten times staff spend thier day off) and places in Maine and Vermont.

Figure 1.1 Brick, brick and more brick

To sum Portsmouth up in a few words would be such: Seaside town with beach frontage, quiant new england feel with an eclectic range of Boutique shops, a dash of Australia style open air cafe scene, a movie theatre, serveral Pubs (one of which is a micro Brewry called of all things Smutty nose), a live music scene to rival that of Portland and an Ice cream shop. In summation every tourist dream.

Figure 1.2 one of the many Pedestrain Crossing that dot the landscape of Portsmouth

The locals pronouce it as Portsmith, which always confused the heck out of me. I never knew if we were talking about the same place.

Figure 1.4 One of a but a many boutique shop window

Figure 1.5 AnnaBelle's Ice Cream Shop

There is some weird connection between Ice cream and New Hampshire apparently percapita New Hampshirians eat the most Ice cream. This would help explain the great many ice cream shops the permiate the roadsides and little haunts of each town. Given that it's below zero or hovering there abouts this is even more surprising. The summer must more than carry the wieght for the whole year but even still thats alot of ice cream shops much more than you would find in any part of Australia. As Far as Ice cream goes Annabelle's goes down quite well.