Blogs from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America

After a busy morning of last minute chores we left the lake and headed down to Salem, NH to pick up our Euros. All was uneventful until be reached the airport. While going through security Diane was pulled over and asked to take her shoes off so that they could be put through the x ray machine. Evidentially she looked like a possible shoe bomber. We then proceeded to our gate which felt like four miles away. We then realized that there were no places to eat in this section of the new terminal. After much walking back and forth we decided to order sandwiches which they delivered. $50.00 for two sandwiches seemed a little excessive, but when you’re hungry, your hungry. After devouring our sandwiches we headed to the restrooms. As I was hovering over ... read more

First things first, let me apologise if you receive this blog unexpectedly by email, bit I'm afraid that I've not been able to work out yet how to amend the email list, so please just delete the blog if you can't be bothered (understandably) to read it, or alternatively, you may find it a very good cure for insomnia! Now, it may surprise people to learn that one of my favourite songs of all time is the superb 'Weekend in New England' by Barry Manilow, a beautiful ballad, actually written by Randy Edelman. Well, forget 'weekend', the Kilbys and the Forbes are off on their next adventure, this time a two week tour of the USA, principally the joys (hopefully!) of New England in the Fall. Our last trip together was when we were nearly five ... read more

A bad start Getting to the airport, check in, great. Security a nightmare. It took me more tan 45 to pass. Should have been a sign for things to come. Boarding and push off was smooth, although somewhat delayed, as you could expect. It went wrong once we hit the apron and we were told that we were number 12 for take off.and even wronger when the pilot announced that for one reason or the other we had to wait for approval from the tower for a flightplan change and we were sidelined. In the meantime rain and thunderstorms had appeared and everything went on hold. A long story short, I missed my conexión in Atlanta and had to find, for expense of the airline, a hotel. Obviously I was not only one looking for a ... read more

Breakfast was in house here with a modern breakfast facility and was really big. Only a light breakfast of yoghurt, banana and OJ today. We had planned to get a Taxi down to Fenway Park the famous home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to start the day and we asked reception around 9.00am to call a Taxi for us to make sure we arrived in time for our 10.00am tour and he said don’t pay $70- catch the train instead for only $2.40 ! So we bought what they call here a Charlie Card to get us around. We got the instructions from him on how to get there using a combination of the Red Line from the Andrew T-Line station which was about 900 metres walk away from our hotel. What a coincidence ... read more

Okay history buffs, this trip was for you! The city, history, museums is not my favorite activity BUT I heard that accessing downtown Boston is super easy and I really wanted to get out and about today. It has been raining, windy, power outages, even Hanscom Air Force Base has been without power for four days now. Listening in on the water cooler conversations around base and researching the commute online I came up with the following plan. Drive Hwy 2, not the 95 (to avoid the morning commuters), park at Alewife Station, purchase a two-stop subway pass ($4.80), take the red line to Park St. That put me at the Boston Common off Tremont St. That was the beginning of the Freedom Trail that I followed. Approximately 2 miles long, lots of wait time at ... read more