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Published: January 18th 2007
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Hey Guys the blog keeps on screwing up on me and publishes my drafts, here is Boston for a second go.
Sorry it has been awhile since our last blog it has been hectic, so just letting you know that we are all alive and well.
Gell Ian and I with our new recruit Sarah rode into Boston in the trusty steed, late as usual because we got lost, with one destination on our mind, the Mecca of Boston, the be all and end all, the Crane Poole and Schmit building. For those that aren't familiar with this important landmark it is the building used as an exterior for the David E Kelly TV show Boston Legal. When we had to ask at the tourist information which building was Crane Poole and Schmit we expected to be laughed or scorned at however the people behind the counter said nothing and just pointed us in the direction, I think they get asked where it is all the time.
The building wasn't much to look at but if you imagined James Spader and William Shatner walking in and out the doors it made it worth while. Continuing with our hunting down
of television landmarks we went to the pub that inspired the TV show Cheers. The outside of the pub is exactly like the one on the show however the inside is very different. The bar was not in the centre of the pub so you couldn't walk around it, there was also a wall separating the back section from the front section. They did not know my name and Ted Danson did not greet us. They also cashed in on the show a bit by having menu items named after characters from the show as well as having two gift shops in the pub.
Two of the big stand outs of Boston were the Samuel Adams brewery and Fenway Park.
We have no desire to watch baseball or know much about it, but Fenway Park the home of the Red Sox Nation was a must stop. It is place where people go and support a team that lost for 86 years. Our guide was a very dedicated Red Sox fan and New York Yankees hater, luckily Ian and I didn't wear our hats, so for an hour he loaded us with so much information and baseball statistics half the time
I had no idea what he was talking about, Ian and Gell were a little more up with the lingo than me. But we did learn that the longest home run was hit there by Ted Williams and it was 552 feet. (I think)
Jim Koch started the Samuel Adams brewery in 1984 as a response to the watered down crap American beers, and today he has over 18 different award winning flavours. The Sam Adams brewery uses an old brewing method that started back in the 1800's, the beer is made from the best ingredients from all over the world producing a beer with intense in flavours and aroma. (This is not a sales pitch) The tour was free hence we were also able to sample the beer for free and we got a free glass. Though Ian had discovered Sam Adams Boston Lager as his favourite American beer I finally found a beer that was tasty and I liked Sam Adams Light.
The hostel we stayed in was an old hotel from the 50s they had converted while still keeping the old charm, JFK had even stayed there when he was a student at Harvard. It was a
bit out of town and public transport was the most expensive we had encountered so far on our trip, $2 for every trip you made, so no transfers or your ticket lasting a certain time, however Boston is one of the richer areas of USA, they have Harvard. Harvard is the oldest university in America and the most beautiful. The grounds expand over their own town of Cambridge, if you imagine Winthrop at UWA times thousand plus 400 years of history even their squirrels were cleaner and fluffier. Boston has a lot of history involved around the revolution as well as old and new political leaders, of course the Kennedy family immigrated and lived there so everything was named after JFK. Faneuil Hall was pretty amazing as well, it had a market on the first floor and a meeting hall on the second, it was this meeting hall that gave birth to the idea of the Boston tea party as well as where other revolutionaries gave speeches and rallied people together.
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A Blog with no end
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