Day 19: New Haven, CT

Nau maiYesterday we played in the Puritan colony of New Haven, Connecticut. This is the new sport. I slept late after a big night of supporting Jon in his racing career, and I had just risen from my bunk when bus driver John arrived and began changing everyone’s sheets (this happens once a week on a bus tour). I headed to the galley and constructed a simple breakfast using ingredients from pantry, fridge, and fruit bowl. Fresh strawberries were quartered, a kiwifruit was roughly sliced, a handful of blueberries were tumbled from a punnet, chunky granola was shuffled from a bag, several spoons of thick, Greek yoghurt were dolloped into my bowl. Our home for the day was the College Street Music Hall, which despite the atrocities committed by the mixed case typeface atop the building’s awning was actually a handsome old theatre that dates back to 1926. We were right in the centre of the city with the famous New Haven Green right down the end of the block and the local university only a…