31 Jan 2011

I was there: P-town, USA. A summer tale


As on Wikipedia.
Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,431 at the 2007 census. Sometimes called "P-town", the town is known for its beaches, harbor, artists, tourist industry, and its status as a gay village... Provincetown is located at the tip of Cape Cod. The town's total area is 17.5 square miles(45 km2), 9.7 square miles (25 km2) of it being land and 7.8 square miles (20 km2) of it water. 
http://www.ptownchamber.com
Trough my eyes...
Provincetown is simply said a magic town. The land of all posibilities.
 No kidding, you can find anything there: beautiful nature, beautiful harbour, cheap accomodation, great food, well-paid jobs, loads of gays and lesbians, loads of gay people having sex at the corner of every bar once the night falls, the most ugly lesbians you could ever see, interesting museums, old houses with loads of angry ghosts, expensive houses( well, less expensive than in England) and luxury cars, drag queens with amazing voices and shows, very very pretty police-officers, old ships, whales and dolphins, Pilgrim Monument, sex-shops,singers, actors(famous), loads of art galleries, dirty old guest houses, great beaches and wildlife, powerfull storms, 3 huge cemeteries( more graves than alive residents), gay-parade, good icecream, great restaurants, lively parties , clothes for your dogs and cats, strange art, spooky old houses. And all the rest.
Freedom. Freedom of feeling free and expressing yourself. Joy. This is Provincetown. 
My advices:
-do not try to get topless on the beach, not even on deserted beaches. You might be arrested or you might get a fine. police won't condemn the public sex between gays, but will condemne you if you dare to show your breasts on the beach
- do go on a romantic dinner at Lobster Pot restaurant( best food and drink in town). right on the beach. you won't find anywerelse another restaurant where people quee outside even in the rain to be able to get a spare table.
-do not get accomodation on old guest houses. never!
-do go to a drag queen show. their shows are amazing
-do visit the art galleries and the Pilgrim Monument 
-do go early to disco...they all close at 1 am
-do go to see the whales out in the sea: a lifetime experience
-try to prevent toothaches...you won't find easy a dentist there and if you do find it will rip your wallet off!
one of the old ships in the harbour


Pilgrims monument at night

a day in P-town

cars of Ptown

the way they dress...is to impress

view from Pilgrims monument 
Pilgrims monument garden


one of the piers


a whale in action...they are bigger than they seem
sushi time

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