Tall Ships Are Coming to Portsmouth NH

If you live in or around Portsmouth NH, you know we always have lots of things going on that are centered around all the water we’re so lucky to have all around us! 

Another fabulous event going on this week is our Portsmouth NH Tall Ships Festival, which is brought here to us by our Piscataqua Maritime Commission. 

 

We’ve been fortunate to have had Tall Ships visit us for a number of years now, and visitors and residents alike just love our summer Tall Ships Festival.  This is our 10th annual festival.

 

 

This year, we’ve got 4 ships coming in: the US Coast Guard Eagle, the Kalmar Nyckel, the Spirit of Massachusetts, and the Spirit of Carolina. These ships have begun arriving in Portsmouth Harbor.  The Spirit of Massachusetts is already in port, having arrived on Sunday.  The others will be arriving on the 5th and 6th.  During the week, these ships will be sailing up and down the river – great picture-taking opportunities.

The Tall Ships Boat Parade will be held the morning of August 7th, starting at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbor, going upriver to the docks in downtown Portsmouth.  Once the ships are docked, the official festivities will begin – tours, entertainment, day sails, and more.

This is a wonderful event to take part in – plan a day here in Portsmouth NH and see these beautiful ships!  I watched the boat parade last time, and got to see them at the docks.  They are beautiful ships for sure!

  

If you’re here and make Portsmouth NH home, or if you’re in the area or are close enough to take a day trip here, come see these magnificent Tall Ships – well worth spending a day here to see them and enjoy all that downtown Portsmouth has to offer.

Would you like information on the Portsmouth New Hampshire real estate market?  Do you have questions about the buying or selling process?  Give me a call at 1-888-349-5678 x 3839 or send me an email and let’s talk real estate!

 

 

        

                   

 

 

Servicing the New Hampshire towns of Portsmouth, Newcastle, Rye, North Hampton, Hampton, Stratham, Exeter, Greenland, Newington, Dover, Durham and surrounding areas, and the Maine towns of Kittery, Kittery Point, Eliot, South Berwick, York, and surrounding areas.

NH and Maine Coastal Living Pictures | New Photo Blog

I love living here in Portsmouth NH, and really enjoy showing off this great place I’m fortunate to call home.  And because of that, I have tons of pictures I’ve taken.  I wanted an easy way to share them with others who love this area, and with those who may be thinking about making the Seacoast areas of New Hampshire and southern Maine their new home.

Below are examples of pictures you’ll find on my new photo blog:

So, with that in mind, I started my own photo blog – www.NHCoastalLiving.com.  And I invite you to check it out!

If you love Portsmouth NH homes, the City of Portsmouth, and just everything about living in and around Portsmouth, then you just might become a fan of New Hampshire Coastal Living Photo Blog!

I hope you enjoy the pictures there, and if you have pictures you’d like to share, I’d welcome your submissions, and will give you proper attribution.

Enjoy!
Ann

Servicing the New Hampshire towns of Portsmouth, Newcastle, Rye, North Hampton, Hampton, Stratham, Exeter, Greenland, Newington, Dover, Durham and surrounding areas, and the Maine towns of Kittery, Kittery Point, Eliot, South Berwick, York, and surrounding areas.

Portsmouth NH Area Fireworks

Looking to catch some great fireworks displays in the Portsmouth NH area?

Here’s where some of them will be:

Friday, July 3rd -
Portsmouth fireworks starting at 9:15pm – South Mill Pond across from Portsmouth Middle School.  Music at 7:30pm.
York fireworks start at 9:05pm – Harbor Beach York Harbor.

Saturday, July 4th -
Dover fireworks start at 9pm – Maglaras Park.
Greenland fireworks start at 9pm – Bramber Valley Golf Course – outdoor grilling all evening.
Hampton fireworks start at 9:15pm – Hampton Beach area.
Rye fireworks start at dusk – Parson’s Field.

Sunday, July 5th -
York Beach fireworks start at 9:30pm – Ellis Park Short Sands Beach

UPDATE – Portsmouth NH fireworks have been move to Sunday night, July 5th, same time and location

Find a fireworks display near you and enjoy them!

I wish you and yours a safe and enjoyable 4th of July holiday weekend!

Servicing the New Hampshire towns of Portsmouth, Newcastle, Rye, North Hampton, Hampton, Stratham, Exeter, Greenland, Newington, Dover, Durham and surrounding areas, and the Maine towns of Kittery, Kittery Point, Eliot, South Berwick, York, and surrounding areas.

Summer Fun Begins! Portsmouth City Pool Opens

 

Every summer in Portsmouth NH, kids of all ages look forward to the city pool opening up for the season.  This year’s season for the Peirce Island Pool begins today, June 29th, and remains open through August. 

 

 

 

 

If you live in Portsmouth’s Little Harbor area or the South End area, you’re lucky enough to be able to walk to the pool and other fun things in the area.  There is parking, so if you have to drive, no worries.

If you’re a town resident, use of the pool is $1.00 for adults and free for kids as long as you have proof of Portsmouth being your home.  If you don’t live in Portsmouth, you can use the pool for a $2.00 admission for adults and $1.00 per child.

 

 

 

 

For a full schedule of the city pool hours, swimming lessons, etc., check out this City of Portsmouth Pool link.  Portsmouth also has an indoor city pool, which residents are welcome to use as well.

Would you like information on the Portsmouth New Hampshire real estate market?  Do you have questions about the buying or selling process?  Give me a call at 1-888-349-5678 x 3839 or send me an email and let’s talk Portsmouth real estate!

 

 

      

                   

   

 

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US Companies Failing At Customer Service BIG Time!

I don’t usually use my real estate blog to rant about things, but today that’s just what I’m doing.

This week, in just the last 3 days, I’ve had the ‘opportunity’, and I lose that word quite loosely, of having to try to get some customer service from 2 companies.  The first company was one that I thought was local, LOCAL, like right here.  Until recently, I had always been able to make a call, get a real person to talk to and then be transferred to another person in the office here in Portsmouth NH.  Not anymore!

I dialed their phone number, got the same person who always answered, and then was transferred to the ‘department’ that was going to help me.  When the person came on the phone, I could tell right away I had ended up off-shore somewhere.  I asked the person on the other end of the phone where they were, and that confirmed what I suspected.

 

The second ‘opportunity” was just today, which set me off on this post.  I had purchased a major appliance earlier this year, and have had need to have repair technicians come out several times to get it to work properly.  Well, once again it’s not functioning properly so I called to schedule a service call.  They were supposed to come out today, sometime between 1pm and 5pm.  Yep, that infamous time window – you know full well they can narrow that down a bit more, but they don’t even try.  Anyway, 5pm came and went, and no service person.  At 6:15pm, I called the service line, asking when the technician might be showing up, if at all.  Lo and behold, I found I had traveled time zones and countries to another off-shore servicing center.

Why does that continue to happen?  Do American companies think that’s better servicing for their consumers?  No doubt it’s cheaper for them, and it undoubtedly provides jobs in the off-shore countries.  But at what cost?

 

When you try to get help from those so-called ‘service centers’, they really can’t help you at all.  If you ask something that isn’t on their script, they’re lost.  They go right back to repeating their script, and that’s just flat useless to me, the consumer on the other end of the phone trying to get help regarding the product I plunked a lot of money out for.

 

I wish there was some way that would allow you to know in advance that the ‘service center’ for whatever company you’re thinking about doing business with is here or ‘over there somewhere’.  If I could know that in advance, I would think long and hard about whether I really wanted to buy that product or those services from that company, or not.

 

In real estate, we’re all abuzz about transparency.  How about the same thing in the general marketplace of regular goods?  I think that’s only fair and right – for my money, I want to know who’s going to help me when/if I need help, and what kind of rigmarole (sp?) I’m going to have to go through just to reach someone who really can help me.

Off-shore servicing centers – BIG-time FAIL!!

What’s been your experience with servicing centers?  I’d love to hear your experiences in the comments below.

       

                     

     

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