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Boston 2010 Day 3

Day three in Boston and we have planned to take a car and drive to Cape Cod via Salem. This we did so after breakfast we set of on the airport shuttle bus to get get to Alimo where we pick up the car. First though we had our all American breakfast including self made waffles – very nice!
First port of call after picking up our hired car ( Town and County – Crysler – very comfortable ) we then headed for our first stop which was Salem. This place very famous for the fact that 33 supposed witches were executed there – according the story it seems that they were probably hiper youngsters and that the authorities there just over reacted. But this was a famous event in any case. Remember the TV program called Bewitched – see the star from that prog below!


The story of the Salem witches it told here are the Salem Witch Museum – very interesting 😉

We then carried on to Hyannis which was out bas in Cape Cod for the next 24 hours. Here is our hotel – again very comfortable. Had on of the best fish meals ever at a local restaurant here!!


And lastly here we have some local fishing boats – think of the Perfect Strom ( film ) see the similarity between this boat and the one featured in the film.


Day 4 we will be heading back north to Boston – more of this later!

Boston 2010 Day 2

Day 2 of our trip to Boston and we were up for breakfast at about 8.15am. Usual American hotel type breakfast with waffles, doughnuts and toast on the menu. Most enjoyable start to the day. Then we took the shuttle bus to the tube station and went into Boston centre and headed to the tourist information centre. After some investigation and some very helpful advice form the information officer we set of to walk the freedom trail. See below, the trail is marked on the side walks and road either by a redline or a reconfiguration of the brick work as it is in the photo below.

We started from Boston Central hall and then followed the trail through Boston crossing the river to get to the Italian region of the city.

The statue below is part of an exhibit out side the Borders bookshop which was erected to commemorate the large number of Irish people who came to Boston to escape their life of famine and poverty.
The three towers you see below are actually Bostons tribute to those who suffered and died in the Holocaust concentration camps there is one to represent each of these “death camps”


Along the way we saw some early evidence of the Boston fall. This photo being taken in Cambridge not far from the Harvard University campus.

Finally we arrived back at Fennial Market where we decided to dine at the Boston Hard Rock Cafe……

I did not succumb to buying the tea shirt but the food was great 😉 A great day with a lot of interesting history concerning the early days of Boston and of course Bostonians fight for freedom from the British settlers.

Boston Holiday 2010

Day 1 of our holiday was a travel day! Up at 3.30am, taxi to airport 4.15am then two flights from Aberdeen to Paris and Paris to Boston. All flights etc were on time and we arrived safely in Boston. Photo below is of the first aircraft, second was a 747 so all good 😉


Once we had arrived in Boston and checked into the hotel we then visited Boston centre and the Market area. Weather was fine and warm.


We then had dinner at “Dicks” we did not get the hats! But the food was fantastic. I had salmon and the other had selection of different fish dishes all of which were very much enjoyed. See the family at the adjacent table who were certainly having a ball.


So after a restful sleep and some time zone adjustment we are up and refreshed and now ready to have some breakfast before heading back into Boston to see some more sights.

Had some rain over night but seems that the weather could be good for the next couple of days. Can be tracked here http://www.boston.com/weather/

Almost ready to go on leave

Well today is the day that I finish work for two whole weeks. We are heading of across the pond and will visit Boston and then join a cruise to Nova Scotia and back to Boston again. We have been looking forward to this for a whole year. One place we will visit is Peggy’s cove which can be seen in on the live web cam – click here to view.

Watch this space for further updates 😉