Thursday September 24th 2009 I'll be honest in that I have always been an early riser, but even by my standards today was too early. For some unknown reason I was up at 5am!! With Kay sound asleep, I powered through by reading about 30 two page chapters of 'The Lost Symbol' the latest Dan Brown book that continues the adventures of Robert Langdon and so far is surprisingly good and quite apt considering it is all about American symbols and the essence of America's founding fathers/Masons. When Kay did eventually come round, we quickly got ready and having looked out [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday September 23rd 2009 If the sound of riding the streets of Boston on a Trolley Bus tour sounds like an easy and not too exhausting thing to do - think again!! Its bloody tiring but very much worth it! Another lazy morning with Blueberry Muffins and Orange Juice in the hotel before we headed over to Boston Common to catch the 9am Trolley Bus that takes you on a 2 hour tour of the whole city of Boston, stopping at 17 different locations with a narration of all the fascinating landmarks and history that make Boston the city it is. [View Full Entry]

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22nd September Woo-hoo!! We're here in Boston, and all in all its looking great as the sun rises over the city and today looks like its going to be a great day. Travelling was a rather interesting experience! Having arrived at the airport about 3 hours early so Kay can abuse the various retail outlets we spent about an hour using self check-in machines and waiting for the baggage machine to start working again. After all of that hassle, there was only one thing to do so we headed for TGI Fridays to enjoy some pre-honeymoon cocktails. After a little while [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday - 22nd September Boston is fantastic - it really is everything you could want in a great city and both of us already feel we made a great choice coming on Honeymoon here. The weather is great (about 22), the parks look stunning and thrown into that is an amazing and vibrant city that is very busy and full of history. Having recovered from our flights, we had a lazy morning in our hotel room before heading out to just have a look about the area for a few hours and pick up the tickets for the American Football game [View Full Entry]

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We decided to take the Greyhound bus from Toronto to Boston - not sure if it's worth the saved money. Perhaps if we would have went with a bus company that went to Boston directly, instead of stopping at a bunch of towns along the way, it would have been a nicer experience. But our bus was late leaving Toronto, so we missed our connection in Buffalo, causing us to wait in the Buffalo bus station for roughly 2 hours from 12:30-2:30am. But once again, immediately upon crossing the border, I was struck by the intense friendliness of Americans. I was [View Full Entry]

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I have traveled much of the United States, visiting some of the most recognizable cities in the country, if not the world, on more than one occasion. But, and I'm not completely sure why, I have never taken the chance to visit Boston---or Massachusetts for that matter. No, I'm not a Red Sox fan, nor do I know the burrows or the slang for ordering their local cuisine, but I am addicted to history and heritage, and have been told on numerous occasions that Boston is one of the most influentially historical cities in the Northeast, if not North America. So, [View Full Entry]

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I think I mentioned in my previous blog that I love the book shops in America. My very favourite author is Edith Wharton who writes of C19th New York society and I have read most of her novels. So when I spotted a collection of ghost stories by her, I immediately bought it. I am a fan of the short-story genre, although (like a lot of the things I like) I am aware it is not very popular or fashionable. I also like ghost stories, although of the higher-calibre M R James variety rather than any tales involving vampires (what is [View Full Entry]

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Well, it was a busy weekend. On the Friday, we jumped in the car to go to a Kings of Leon concert, which was great, despite a rainstorm. There were about 40,000 people there, mostly drunk, but there was no trouble. From what I have seen, Americans are quite laid-back and friendly; more likely to help a stranger than most Brits with our don't-look-and-you're-not-involved mentality and less likely to initiate a fracas. Leaving the stadium with the crowds I couldn't help thinking to myself that, if this was Glasgow, fists would be flying. On Saturday (after our obligatory exercise class) [View Full Entry]

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September 12th started with rain and so we did what Mark Twain advised and waited. Unfortunately he lied, it didn’t let up all day, so we decided to visit the MIT Museum in the morning. It was really interesting and covered scientific breakthroughs ranging from underwater vehicles, robotics and the part MIT played in the moon landings. The worrying aspect was that there was a computer in there that Chris had used at the start of his career. Age showing through again! Caught the train out to the 'burbs and spent a great afternoon with a couple of friends. Amazing the [View Full Entry]

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Every adventure has a beginning and ours starts on the 10th September 2009 right here in sunny Boston, well we would like to say sunny Boston but unfortunately we have brought the rain with us and left the UK in a late summer heatwave, regrets already, not a chance. Starting from the beginning, our Virgin flight from Heathrow to Boston was very good, with our premium economy seats proving very spacious and comfy and best of all it was basically eat and drink the whole flight. Some people are not fans of plane food, but personally (this is Lisa speaking) I [View Full Entry]

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