Any thoughts on renting a cottage in East Sandwich, on Cape Cod? I really don't know much about the cape. Would it be a good location to spend a summer week on the cape. Or should I be looking at another town?
Sandwich is a very nice little town, just over the Sagamore Bridge, essentially the very first town actually
on Cape Cod after you cross the Cape Cod Canal from Plymouth via the Sagamore Bridge.
Sandwich is largely a residential and year round Cape community. It is certainly much less "touristy" and much less congested with added throngs of people (except for those just driving through en route to elsewhere further "down Cape", of course). That being said, if you are planning on spending much time during your week visiting places on the lower Cape, such as the Cape Cod National Seashore sites and beaches, or Chatham, or Provincetown, then you are necessarily going to be joining "the throngs" and encountering lots of tourist traffic driving from Sandwich to the lower Cape and back again on any given day(s).
Everyone is different, of course. I lived and worked (year round) on lower Cape Cod for some years, so I have both personal experience and considerable bias. Personally, I would
not want to spend a whole summer week in Sandwich; I'd get promptly bored. I'd instead be looking for someplace more centrally located as a "hub" for lower Cape travels ( e.g., in towns like Brewster, Orleans, Chatham, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro). On the other hand, you'll pay considerably more money to be in any of those towns than you are likely paying for a week in sleepy Sandwich, so it's a balancing act you'll have to perform on your own in making your choice.
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