Two hours upstate from Manhattan, where Chelsea Clinton got married and Rufus Wainwright grew up (which explains why he may or may not be prepared to sell you some chintzy wallpaper in this photograph).
Very pretty and populated by farm shops, antiques stores and homeware bargains - see no further than Hammertown, unrelated to M C Hammer. Other favourites are the rug shop where the salesman Dave explained he couldn’t buy a rug for himself because he doesn’t have a house, and Grooming by Betsie which may or may not be an emporium for pedophiles.
Outside the Rhinebeck Smoke Shop is this statue of a Native American chief looking like an outraged transvestite caught in flagrante. It may well be the oldest sculpture of a Native American in America, Rhinebeck claims the oldest everything in America.
If you have a car, check out the range of faux Georgian country houses in the area dating from the “let’s pretend to be English” phase - see Edith Wharton for details. But be warned, there’s a surprising amount of road rage simmering below Rhinebeck's Martha Stewart exterior.
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