Zoe Triantafillou is a freelance video producer from Chicago,who enjoys traveling. Instead of going to Greece (as she always seems to do!), she opted to head home to New Hampshire for her last spring break. A surprising, but wellchosen destination!
What did you like least about it? It’s still pretty cold in March/April. I thought I wouldn’t need a jacket and it started snowing!
So....what did you do last spring break? Last spring break I visited New Hampshire, where I grew up. I was house sitting for my mom who went on a wonderful cruise!
What was the best thing you bought? Best thing I bought was a new pair of hiking boots to climb Mt. Monadnock which happens to be the most climbed mountain in the States–maybe it’s the world (I can’t remember). But it was fantastic, I could’ve stayed up there for hours. You can hike it in the summer and winter months.
Why did you pick this location? I think as we get older we realize how good we “had it” back in the day. Going home is more like a vacation to me now. We joke and say it’s my “Camp David”. What did you enjoy most about it? I love smelling the pine trees in the air the minute I get out of the airport. I love being surrounded by trees and quaint little towns where everyone knows your name. Sunday driving the back roads and enjoying the views from all the mountain tops I took for granted when I was younger.
opposite page: Zoe in Keene Town Square (Keene was in the movie Jumanji and is locally known for all it’s roundabouts!) above: Zoe on top of Mt. Monadnock
What was the best thing you ate? Hands down, it’s pizza from the Pizza Peddler. It’s what I call East Coast style pizza, nothing like Chicago pizza at all. The dough is more of a pan pizza, with a mix of cheeses and I love all the veggies minus the mushrooms!
Would you do it again? Of course I would, who said you can never go home again? ;) Where will we finding you this spring break? This year it will be more of an international flavor I think, either a visit to my sister in England OR a very long over due beach vacation somewhere south.
A church in Hancock, NH. “It’s a “great little town in [the] summer and winter. They have a bed and breakfast there as well as a great cafe with home made fresh bread. In the summer they have a Farmer’s Market every Saturday,” Zoe says.
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