Today we went for a leisurely drive from Cambridge to Portsmouth, passing on the way Newbury, Sailsbury, Exeter, Manchester and York. Yes, many of the New England place names sound very familiar. Today we are very sadly leaving Boston and heading north. We have loved Boston, and two of the four of us agree that it's our favourite city in the USA so far (and it has some very tough competition, mainly New York), which I'm sure they'll be very happy about. We could have probably have done with a bit more time there. Whilst packing, for the first time, we put on the TV. It's like having the One Show running all day, but with the irrelevance times by 100, coupled with over-the-top sugar-coated sincerity and a constant stream of unimaginative, in-your-face commercials thrown in.
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