Blogs from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America - page 5

We arrived in Boston Harbor and were able to tie up at a cruise terminal, yea no tendering! We had signed up for the Freedom Trail walking tour of Boston. Our walking tour started with a (long) bus ride to begin our tour at Boston Commons where we started the Freedom Trail tour. I remember doing the tour from our trip to the coast in 1968. It would be interesting to find my dad's slides he took from that trip and compare how Boston has changed in 49 years! We (now) covered lots of historic sights included a graveyard where Samuel Adams, John Hancock and Paul Revere are buried. We continued the trail to Paul Revere’s house and his statue just outside the Old North Church. We got to go inside the church and hear the ... read more

I love watching the TV when we're over here. From a practical point of view it has been essential to keep a close eye on weather forecasts now we're in the meteorologically unstable North East. They really go to town on their local forecasts here - much more detailed in specific local forecasting than we are and really very helpful when you are only in a location for a matter of days. The trouble is that I start off with good intentions of just watching news and weather only to get sucked in to the programmes which follow. Jeopardy is on every night at 7. If you haven't seen it this is, by American standards, a serious affair with earnest looking contestants, some quite hard questions at times, and very little glitz and glamour. Following that ... read more

I was up very early again this morning since my first class was at 7am. That meant lots of coffee. Lots and lots. I had a movement disorder class to keep me awake. Or keep awake for. Also, I was finally catching the cold Chris and Arya had earlier in the week. So I'll be hunting for meds on my break. Oddly enough, I had a pretty long midday break. They were doing chapter meetings or something so I had like four hours to kill. So David and Cory joined me after my first few morning classes to go out to the Samuel Adams Brewery for a tour. We met at the T station closest to our studio- they actually picked me up some meds to save time. (So grateful). When we got there, I found ... read more

Chris and Arya were up and out of the place pretty early in the morning. My brave hubby had to single-handedly get himself, Arya and all their luggage to and through two airports to get home. Which is no easy task considering that includes her carseat. I'm not sure I could have done it solo without crying. He also took the rental car back with him. Galen and Carleigh's flight wasn't until that evening so the rest of us cleaned up the rental house, packed up, checked out and hopped an uber back to the T train with all our stuff. Our plan was to find my next rental, a studio just south of Back Bay (but not quiet as far as South End) in a beautiful brick neighborhood. This would be my home the next ... read more

Today's plan was to explore Boston, with the aide of our local guide, Cory. He only had one full day with us today before he had to drive back to Vermont for work for a couple days. We decided to drive all the way to Boston today since the parade wasn't until the next day. Cory and David figured parking wouldn't be a huge issue, and it wasn't. And then we could ride the subway to jump from place to place as needed. We were right by the Holocaust Memorial, so we wandered through there first. Next, we walked through Quincy Market but didn't spend much time there, just sort of glanced around at shops, and then moved on. Too may tourists kinda turned us off. I knew the Freedom Trail wandered through this area. I ... read more