Blogs from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America - page 68

Welcome to my travelblog! It is very important to me that I keep in touch during my 4 month adventure to Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. I hope to avoid mass emails and encourage you to find out what I'm up to at your own pace. I am new at this blogging business. Tips are appreciated! Also a warning: these blogs are public so please beware that anyone can read your posted comments (including my parents) :). Somerville, Wellesley and Jamaica Plain: For the week up to my departure, I am visiting many friends in the Boston area and met up with my travelling buddy, Caitlin. The goal has been to spend a lot of quality time with a lot of quality friends. I'm pondering how many pairs of underwear I really need and eating as ... read more

We went to Boston on Saturday! Here are a couple pictures!... read more

Today was to be our Boston 'Free Day', which meant we would be dropped off in the morning, and then we'd be picked up towards the end of the afternoon, and therefore have lots of time to explore around Boston. To start off with though we were dropped off at the Boston Tea Party Ship, in the Seaport District. Unfortunately, the Boston Tea Party Ship was under renovation, and would not be open to the public until 2006, so that was a big shame as that was on my list of things to tick off. Anyway, we were dropped off, and immediately went on our Boston Old Town Trolley tour. This was already included in our tour, and is a hop on, hop off tour, where we could check out any of the sights along the ... read more

Politeness is rife in Boston. Normally a quaint human nature, the well mannered Bostonians have taken politeness to another level. I've stood at a doorway, one person going in and one person going out for an uncomfortably long time while 2 Bostonians "Excuse Me" each other encouraging the other to walk through first. This politeness extends to driving where at stop signs and pedestrian crossings the drive to wave someone through gets to comedic and potentially dangerous levels. The best word I can come up with to describe Boston traffic is 'compliant'. Traffic is fluid, little attention is paid to those things we take as gospel, such as lane markings and crossings but it seems to work. Drivers do the most ridiculous stunts turning right from the left lane or triple parking on a major thoroughfare, ... read more

Having a great time here in Boston with my friend Kay who I met at camp. The weather has been glorious and so far we have been up the Prudential tower for some great views over the city, on a boat cruise, walked round Harvard and visited the museum of fine arts. For our last day we intend to walk the Freedom trail and hit the shops! Boston is a very easy city to get around, the people are friendly, it is very clean and there is even air conditioning on the subway! A bit different to London. Walked past Fenway Park on Tuesday night and managed to hear some of the Black Eyed Peas who were supporting the Rolling Stones concert. Sadly we were unable to get inside but I bet it was a great ... read more