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In a country as developed as America, it is perhaps surprising to learn that 70 percent of one of its most popular residential regions is covered by woodland. Yet such is the case with New England, making that collection of states on the eastern seaboard a kind of mega-Cotswolds, with vistas of the Yorkshire Dales and the Welsh Valleys rolled in.

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But this delightful cluster of picturesque villages with their white clapboard houses and delicately steepled churches really has no parallel anywhere in the world. Especially when you take into account its variety of wonderful foliage - the vivid golds of the birches, poplars and gingkos, the oranges of hickory and mountain ash and the scarlets of maple, red oak and sassafras, among many other varieties.

The wildflowers of the spring and summer are breathtaking. The roadsides, fields and mountains burst into colour - first with rhododendron and laurel providing bright splashes of pink across the green woods; then a kaleidoscope of yellow goldenrod, orange Turk's cap lily, pale blue asters and the proud purple sway of the lupin.

New England gets plenty of winter snow and rain, and its wonderful greenness helps to account for its name. With white-tailed deer bobbing among the trees, English people feel very much at home - albeit home on a larger canvas where it is not unusual to suddenly encounter an amiable giant in the shape of a moose on the road in front of you.

Titan have always taken clients off the beaten track, where you find, unusual in America, roads that occassionally curve and certainly dip, adapting to the contours of the countryside. As a result of a long and passionate affair with this part of America, our product managers know those routes that others - obsessed too much, perhaps, with simply getting from one welltrodden spot to another - rarely encounter.

New England offers so many incidental pleasures, marvellous traffic free vistas and villages unspoilt by trampling tourists. Popular as it is with the worldwide travelling community, we see no need to be part of a convoy trailing down the same old freeways, the equivalent of our motorways. They must be used some of the time of course, particularly later in the day when returning from excursions (for this is a vast country), but ‘getting away from it all' is, in our view, the point about New England.