Travel: In search of...Cape Cod Cape crusader David Schickler revisits his childhood playground (incidentally, one of the most fashionable resorts in America)

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 24, 2001| Author: David Schickler | Copyright information

If you pore over a map of Cape Cod - the most mystical of all holiday haunts on the US east coast - you will see that visiting it is like falling down an Alice-In-Wonderland rabbit hole. Everything is turned fabulously on its head. The town of South Dennis is north of West Dennis; South Chatham is west of West Chatham. There is only one real highway down the middle of the Cape, and every exit is like a door in an enchanted hallway that leads to an equally enchanted room, or inn, or lighthouse...