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On our vacation in Vermont, we decided to also visit Springfield, VT, the town of the ‘The Simpson’s Movie’ premier and later on, we were told of the hang gliding school by a nice gentleman at the Visitors Center outside of Springfield. We drove and ended up in MorningSide Flight Park . We enquired about the options we had to get airborne, and since we don’t have flying licenses(yet) , we could only participate in a tandem flight.

Luckily for us, the weather was great and Steve, the expert hang gliding instructor, was more than willing to take us both and introduce us to amazing experience. After filling up a couple of forms and paying the fees, we got student licenses which are valid for 30 days.

Words cant describe the experience.It was amazing.Here are some pictures, which are a few light years away from the real experience.

Regarding the gliding school,the staff there are very friendly , helpful and Steve does an awesome job making you comfortable from the time you decide to partake in this adventure and educates you on the whole hang gliding universe and on the area under you that you glide on. There is a camera attached to the glider (worth the $20 you pay).Steve even lets you control the glider, if you are ready for it.

Highly recommended and on our way back we decided to stop and thank the gentleman at the Visitor center for letting us know about the flight school.

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We thought of staying at Cavendish Point for a day and looking for other accommodations, but were told by the front desk that since we had reserved for the 4 days, we would be charged irrespective.To add to the disappointment, we realize that there is no room service!! Any half self respective resort has room service and my plans to catch up on all the newer movies were dashed as they did not have ‘pay per view’ TV!

This place has mislead us and probably many other.So if you are considering this place for whatever reason, make sure you ask them whether you will be staying at the Castle, the suites or at the Cavendish Pointe.Nowhere does it mention on the Castle Hill website the rooms of Cavendish Pointe.

Fortunately, we did a bunch of other things in that area that more than canceled out the motel experience, all that in another post.

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Overall, a good restaurant but  a bit pricey.

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We had heard and read about Babbo , so we decided to give it a try.
Getting the reservation in itself was an ordeal. We had to call one month in advance at exactly 10:00 AM and after many busy tones and redials, we would get to speak to the reservation desk, only to be told that all reservations were taken. Eventually, we got a reservation and were eagerly waiting for the day.

On the D(Dinner)-Day we were lucky to get on-street parking right next to the restaurant.Its free parking from 6 PM onwards from Monday to Saturday.The restaurant was crowded when we arrived and there was hardly any elbow room from the door to the seating host’s stand.
More people were ordering food at the bar than drinking.

For starters, we were served a thick slice of cold bread, but they forgot the butter and we had to ask for it. I give restaurants extra points if bread is served warm, which I think of as a ‘ warm welcome’ and also prepares your mind to the freshness of the food that is to come.

The staff was very courteous, knowledgeable about food and wine and efficient.Reviews online suggested that the pasta tasting menu would be the best choice for first timers, and thats what we decided to try accompanied with wine pairing. The five course pasta tasting was quite disappointing and so were the wines that accompanied them.All pasta were prepared ‘Al Dante’, which was nice, but there was nothing exceptional in the taste nor the texture. We were told that the wines were mostly from Batali’s vineyards, but we have had better wines that cost less than 10$ a bottle. The only thing that impressed us was the Gellatos served as part of the dessert course. They were truely exceptional.

To end the review, we were very disappointed with Babboo. The effort in getting the reservation and the cost of the wine+food  was not worth it. We are looking to visit Jean-Georges , which has never let us down, to cheer us up.

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• Small place
• Excellent food
• Long wait on a weekend evening
• Reasonably priced
• BYO(Would recommend taking your own wine bottle as the wine store nearby is expensive and the $15 wine we got sucked)
• No reservations
• On Street parking ( Take lots of quarters)
• For Indian palate, suggest 7 of 10 spicyness
• Menu Item recommendations
  • Kotthu Roti ( either with Chicken or just veggies)
  • Aapa (aap-pa ~ Hoppers)
  • Beduma (Salted fish dry fry)

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