Travel to Dutchess County and discover Hudson River views, Great Estates, farms and farmers markets, events and festivals and a whole host of cultural and culinary attractions, boutique and antique shopping only 90 minutes from NYC! 

Make sure you have time to visit Dutch’s Distillery at Homestead Farm, Pine Plains, this was home to one of the largest bootlegging operations ever found in Dutchess County which was raided by the FBI in 1932, this actual distillery was not discovered until 2010. Enjoy tasting Sugar Wash Mountain Moonshine which is once again being distilled (legally) at this historical site. 

Stay for 3 nights in Rhinebeck.

Visit the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, the premier culinary school offers student-guided tours and dining at four award-winning restaurants. Cross the Walkway Over the Hudson, the bridge (circa 1888) is a NY State Historic Park; 64.6m above the Hudson and 2.06km across, making it the world's longest elevated pedestrian bridge. Enter at the east or west side of the river or ride the glass elevator for unbelievable views!

Tour the four Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites of Hyde Park, Franklin D. Roosevelt Home on the Hudson is FDR's birthplace and final resting place offering guided tours, FDR Presidential Library & Museum is America's first presidential library and a state-of-the-art interactive exhibit about the Roosevelt era, FDR's early years and his struggle with polio. Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kill is the private cottage home of one of the world's most influential women and the Vanderbilt Mansion is Frederick W. Vanderbilt's Gilded Age home surrounded by national parkland on the scenic Hudson River. 

Stop by the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, one of the largest collections of early aeroplanes in the world, antique autos, motorcycles, engines and memorabilia spanning 1900-1939. Take to the skies in a biplane ride any day of the week. Enjoy weekend airshows June-October with vintage aircraft and German Fokker WWI planes.  

For garden enthusiasts visit Innisfree Gardens near Milbrook just a 30 minute drive from Rhinebeck – it is a mix of Japanese and Chinese designs with modernist and romantic ideas and a lovely place to explore.

Experience world-class opera, theatre, dance, cabaret, film and music at Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts featuring the annual SummerScape festival. 

Make your way to Syracuse where you will stay for the next 3 nights. 

Visit Destiny USA with more than 200 retail stores, dining opportunities and entertainment facilities. Step back in time at the Erie Canal Museum, housed in the only remaining weigh lock building in the United States, this 1850 structure features a full size replica of a canal boat with many hands-on exhibits. Dine at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que offering critically-acclaimed American barbeque at the original "Dino".

The Village of Skaneateles is a quintessential Finger Lakes village offering fine boutique shopping, art galleries, placid scenery, great dining, scenic boat tours and more. The Ska-nonh Great Law of Peace Center offers an insight into the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Native Americans that have lived in this area for a thousand years. The Onondaga Nation (south of Syracuse) remain among the last sovereign Indigenous peoples in the United States. 

Stay for 3 nights in Syracuse. 

Drive to Buffalo which will be your base for the next 3 days. 

Visit the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, an outstanding centre for modern and contemporary art, the collection belongs among the world's top international surveys of 20th century painting and sculpture including Picasso, Monet, Rembrandt, Modigliani, Kieffer, Warhol and more. Make a stop at Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House, designed as a unique residential complex for wealthy Buffalo businessmen Darwin D. Martin and his family between 1903-1905. The house is considered by leading architecture scholars as one of Wright's finest achievements of the Prairie period and, indeed, of his entire career. Visit one or all five Wright designed structures in Buffalo.

Explore Buffalo aboard an authentic British double decker bus. Enjoy entertaining tours of Canalside, the Outer Harbor, city architecture and all the stories of Buffalo's amazing heritage. Canalside hosts over 1000 annual events. Every summer, outdoor yoga, children's games and Thursday at Canalside concerts take place along the district's Central Wharf. Each winter, throngs of visitors flock to the Ice at Canalside, a 35,000 square foot rink on the recreated Erie Canal that features skating, curling, pond hockey and ice bikes. 

Buffalo RiverWorks is Buffalo's newest waterfront development offering pickleball, roller derby, ziplining, rock climbing, a new brewery in a grain elevator and awesome waterfront views. 

Spend a day visiting Niagara Falls State Park and take a ride on the Maid of the Mist. Then enjoy a Cave of the Winds Walk and a trolley ride through the park. 

Drop your car hire off at Buffalo Airport and fly back to the UK. 

Alternatively you can extend your stay with a few days in New York City.