Bring your cross-country skis in winter and your hiking boots for spring, summer and fall. If you want to get away from the city and vacation like your great-grandmother, give a call to Loch Lyme and hope they've got room for you. The speaker is Karin Wolf, who with her husband, Manfred, has owned the White Goose Inn since 1983. The 15 guest rooms are in two houses. One was built in 1770, the other in 1988.
Most rooms have private baths, but some in the older house share a bath.
The houses are set on 8 acres in the heart of the Upper Valley within a quarter-mile of the Connecticut River. The natural setting includes two ponds for swimming and a deck overlooking a circular flower garden and pergola. The maple trees are more than 200 years old. Specialties include Karin's home-baked fruit muffins and Dutch baby pancakes, individual ramekins filled with pastry and fruit. The bird-watching is wonderful, including a great blue heron that spends its days here.