For a Victorian-era resort town founded on the relaxing pleasures of mineral baths, Saratoga Springs, NY can certainly keep a visitor on the move.
Museum-goers alone can choose among venues devoted to contemporary visual art, classic automobiles, dance, children’s activities and the local trade – horse racing. Hoof it down Broadway, the leafy central thoroughfare, and one can spend hours perusing small shops specialising in flamboyant hats, fancy food items, toys, cigars, golf-wear, and books (the latter category includes the labyrinthine Lyric Ballad Bookstore, containing some 100,000 titles). History buffs, meanwhile, can spend a peaceful morning among the green hills of the Saratoga National Historical Park (the site of a pivotal Revolutionary War battle) and an afternoon at the Saratoga Springs History Museum, a former 19th-century casino that evokes an…