Trip report, Part 2 - Boston and Maine, Dec 2014/Jan 2015
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Trip report, Part 2 - Boston and Maine, Dec 2014/Jan 2015
Part 2 of our Dec / Jan holiday... after a week in New York, we decided to head to Boston...
Day 1 -
Fenway Park, a tea party, Go Bruins!
We arrived in Boston late at night (got the train - so easy!) and checked into the Copley Square Hotel... such a cute hotel with real character. We even got an upgrade!
The hotel breakfast was delicious.... omelettes and eggs and potatoes.... yummmmm. This was our first proper hotel breakfast of the trip!
We did a lap on the Trolley tour, a hop on hop off bus.... Boston is small and the Beacon Hill area looked like it will be fun to explore. At this stage, we were looking forward to connecting the pieces of the puzzle and understanding the history of Boston better.
Our first stop was Fenway Park....as Red Sox supporters, this was important!! We did a tour through the ball park, seeing the Hall of Fame, the visitors change rooms, views from different vantage points and the museum with the signed balls, vintage photos and memorabilia. It was an interesting visit and pretty cool to see. We will have to go back in baseball season! The teams play 81 HOME games a year... and good seats are around $70 a game.... you do the maths. Makes the AFL membership seems pretty cheap here in Australia!
As it was a cold and rainy day, we looked for an inside activity and found one at the Tea Party Museum. Such a great tour.... the story of the famous Boston tea party, told through acting, holograms, talking paintings and a boat that was a replica of the boats that brought the tea into the harbour all those years ago. Yes, we got to throw tea overboard! We all had a 'character' in the story which involved everyone.
We had tickets to a Boston Bruins game, our first ice hockey experience!
The game was more like a performance than a game. We were sitting in the clouds... very high! There were NO supporters of the visiting team that we could see..... the crowd were 100% Bruin fans. When the Bruins scored a goal, there was a party..... screens went nuts with movies of celebration and sirens went off and coloured lights flashed. When the visitors got a goal, NOTHING happened. NOTHING!! All the way through the game, different characters in the audience were featured on the big screens which made the whole game feel like a party. It was a great, fun experience. Was a great start to our stay in Boston!
Day 2 - Christmas Eve - the day we fell in love with Boston
Yesterday, we had a lot of fun and thoroughly enjoyed our day in Boston, thinking it was a lovely place. Today, though, we fell in love with Boston
We took the trolley to Charles St, otherwise known as Antique Lane, a road full of the cutest, most gorgeous shops. Beautiful windows, wreaths everywhere, quaint shops selling gorgeous things. Bye bye credit card! In 2 hours we only really investigated half the street. We spent about an hour in the chocolate shop alone! Just gorgeous.
From there, we met a friend of a friend, who is has been living in Boston for 4 months. Seeing Boston through his eyes was fantastic. We saw gorgeous streets like Acorn St, historical places... like where the Declaration of Independence was signed, where Benjamin Franklin was baptised, where the meetings prior to the Tea Party took place... cobbled streets, Christmas trees, beautiful architecture, so many things to explore and do. We could spend a day in Beacon Hill taking photos!
For dinner, we decided to go to the Fairmont and try their restaurant.... beautiful food - I had lobster - yum - so tasty and Tom had chicken that was delicious as well. We got talking to 2 men next to us and they gave us so many ideas for our time here, as well as potential ideas for after Boston. Again, the generosity of strangers in spending time helping us out was amazing.
Brilliant day.... love love love Boston
Day 3 - Christmas Day
Our first Christmas Day away from home! We originally had 2 reservations, but on advice from locals we cancelled both and went to a lovely Italian restaurant in the North End. Cantina Italiana was lovely- lovely service and food. Prawns and meatballs for entree, seafood pasta and chicken / broccoli pasta for mains, beautiful fresh bread .... very nice It was lovely walking through Boston to get to lunch.... lots of Christmas trees, including the one on Boston Common that is donated each year by Nova Scotia. The closest we got to a white Christmas was seeing the ice skating rink! Today was actually the warmest Boston Christmas for over 50 years!
After lunch we wandered back to the Quincy Market area to see the beautiful tree and decorations and explore the Christmas shop.... 2 levels of decorations and today they were all half price We finished Christmas Day in the Ghirardelli shop and stocked up on our favourite American chocolate
Day 4/5
Boxing Day was a lovely relaxing day, where we meandered around Beacon Hill and Little Italy, taking many photos. On the 27th, we met the lovely Saba for our Back Bay photography tour. We meandered around the Back Bay Area, went inside the gorgeous library and saw the bronzed copy of the Declaration of Independence. Seeing all the signatures, especially John Hancock's, was very cool. Wandering around the Back Bay Area, especially seeing the beautiful residential area was lovely. Saba, the guide, was lovely and had some good photo ideas as well as lots of historical information. We liked the tour so much we booked her afternoon tour of the Freedom trail too.
Between tours, Tom and I wandered down the beautiful residential streets, then through the gorgeous public park back to the start of the Freedom trail. Gorgeous walk on a sunny and unseasonably warm day. When I say warm, I was still wearing thermals, a fleece and a jacket.... but I didn't need gloves or a hat today.
December 28
We hired a car for a few days, to explore a little of the New England coast. We started our adventure by driving to the most gorgeous town called Marblehead.
We met a man and his 2 dogs near the Marblehead lighthouse. He had a non commercial lobster licence - so ten pots. He catches around 10-30 lobsters a week and his dogs eat lobster for dinner about 3-4 times a week. When he visits friends on the west coast, his carry on is 30 pounds of fresh lobster!! This was just unbelievable to us!
Currently the off-boat price for lobsters is between $2 and $3 per pound.. So about $7 a kilo! If you're not able to get directly from the boat be prepared to pay as much as $6 a pound! Bear in mind, in Australia we pay around $120 for a lobster!
On our new friends recommendation we had lunch at a restaurant called The Barnacle in Marblehead. We paid about 7 times the price of lobster if we are buying lobster off the boat! We had a WHOLE lobster each for $24.. and that included 2 sides as well!
There's a 17 year wait for a spot to moor the boat.... as its winter, everywhere we look we see 'shrink wrapped' boats, protected for winter.
The houses are gorgeous, wooden and all different colours. Could wander for ages just taking photos and eating lobster!
After eating lobster for half the afternoon, we ventured to Salem for our historical tour. The lady was a tad theatrical and her husband a tad creepy, but the tour was historically accurate from what I know and it was interesting to see different sites in Salem that have significance. We stayed in a hotel that Elizabeth Montgomery stayed in once!
Dec 29
Before our tour of the House of 7 Gables in Salem we wandered back to Marblehead to take photos of the cute little coloured houses and the beautiful mansions. Such a great little place. We then ventured back to Salem.
Salem
You know that feeling when you start a tour, and know from the very first second it's going to be the longest 45 minutes of your life, but there's no escape?No? Well, do the tour of the House of 7 Gables in Salem, make sure 2 tour guides from another company are on the tour too, and you can share the feeling we had at 10am that day!
The House of 7 Gables is the one that inspired the book of the same name. INSPIRED. However, the woman who was a tour guide from another company seemed to think the fictional characters had lived in the house and acted out the book. So, as the layout of the ACTUAL house is different to the house in the FICTIONAL book, the woman kept questioning the poor guide re the book and why rooms were in the wrong place and querying the integrity of her high school English teacher. At different times in the tour the guide asked if we had any questions and we all cringed as we knew who had all the questions.... intermingled into her questions were her attempts to demonstrate her in depth knowledge of the history of the area, which felt more like an attempt to trip the guide up. The tour itself, without the added excitement was pretty boring. The highlight was a hidden staircase which was kind of cool. We decided to leave Salem as the 'witch' like attractions looked cheesy at best and borderline offensive at worst. The one interesting museum was closed, so we headed up the coast.
Exploring up the coast we drove through some very cute little towns with the gorgeous wooden houses, but didn't feel the need to stop until we got to Rockport, a seaside port that is just gorgeous. Rockport was pretty much deserted at this time of year, with about half the shops and most restaurants were closed. Didn't matter though. The harbour was so peaceful and gorgeous, with little boats and wooden buildings. The shopping areas were beautiful to wander through. Was a very nice walk, but very chilly!! Part on the appeal was the fact it was so quiet. I imagine in summer / Autumn it would be a very busy seaside town, wall to wall with people. Would be completely different.
After Rockport we went to Newbury Port, which was bigger and, although the cute buildings were still everywhere, just 'wasn't Rockport'. We had tea there (Lobster pie... could've had lobster risotto, lobster mac n cheese, lobster pasta, lobster roll...) and decided to drive to Maine (Portland) for the night. Got a great deal for a beautiful hotel too! Another upgrade!
Dec 30 - Best day
This morning our intention was to check out Portland. We wandered down to the 'old town' which wasn't really an old town but VERY like Port Adelaide, near where we live! It was cold - about minus 7 - so we were going into many shops just to warm up! When I saw a cheese shop that had samples it was like a dream!! The cheese was all made in Vermont and was delicious. We got talking to the lady about how we'd been hoping to see snow . She suggested if we drive inland about an hour we'd see something as that was heading towards the White Mountains. And this little conversation started the most lovely lovely day!
We got the car and headed inland towards a town called Fryeburg, and as we headed inland we started seeing bits of snow on the sides of the road.... then a frozen lake.... and gradually all of the frozen parts appeared more and more, until we were surrounded by (icy) snow that had fallen a while ago but not melted. So pretty. There were cute little houses everywhere too. We saw a very cool abandoned railway that we had fun taking photos of.... it was very cold so we were basically jumping out of the car, taking photos and then jumping back in the car! After finding Fryeburg we drove on to Conway, just to see more snowy areas. It was just this lovely day driving around the gorgeous countryside and then returning to Portland..... where we had tea on a restaurant inside a boat. The waitress was lovely and funny which made the night even better.... the menu sides included fingerling potatoes, fries, roast potatoes, rice, potato salad and mashed potato! They were the only options for sides... no vegetables or anything. Just starch. I had TWIN lobsters for tea! 2 whole lobsters for $37! 2 lobsters steamed are only about 300 calories!
New Years Eve
New Years Eve was a lovely day, travelling down the coast, with the aim of arriving in Boston early evening. We visited Kennebunkport and a neighbouring village, both very cute little seaside towns, lots of money evident there. Kennebunkport is where Clinton has a house, so you can imagine!
Note to selves: when returning to Boston, on New Years Eve, and your hotel is on the 'Times Square' of Boston, it is not the best idea to try to drive to the front door of your hotel to try and drop off your bags. Also, returning to Boston at 5pm on NYE is not the greatest plan we've ever had....
After finally making our way to return the car nearly an hour after we thought, and then a quick 10 minutes on the subway we made it to our hotel. After a short stop to leave our bags we decided to walk the 5 blocks to the Boston common for the 7pm fireworks.. As we entered the commons the first thing we noticed was the large lake that only 3 days earlier was filled with geese was now all of a sudden frozen solid, around the edge there were plenty of men daring each other to test whether it would take their weight or not. We offered to video their attempts! We randomly chose a place to watch the fireworks and watch 15 minutes of some of the best ones we've ever seen.
Once finished around 100,000 people all of a sudden started leaving the park in every direction and we quickly realised the original plan of catching the subway to Hanover street for dinner would not be the best idea.. Especially as they were now all free. We decided to walk the estimated 1km walk to the restaurant we had chosen for NYE dinner.. Nearly 3kms later we arrived at the restaurant.... called Lucia
We both chose to go with a seafood dinner of prawns for entree and lobster ravioli for the mains. After dinner we headed back to our hotel before the midnight fireworks celebration over the harbour and to pack for the morning flight to Washington.
We checked with the hotel concierge and were told to simply head down to the river 3 blocks from the hotel for a great view of the fireworks, so we decided we could stay in our room til 20 minutes before midnight and then head down.
As we were walking to the waterfront on instructions from the hotel, I was convinced we were in the wrong place as there was no one anywhere near us! When we got to the water it was dark and deserted and only a handful of other people about! Given there were a zillion people at the earlier fireworks, I was pretty sure there would be more than 5 watching the midnight ones.... !
We made friends with another couple who were locals and they were sure we were in the right place too. So, midnight struck.... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Silence. oh hang on, whats that.... far in the distance, behind all the buildings? That'd be the fireworks I am guessing.....!!!! Not quite the midnight we expected, but that's ok..... we were together in Boston and and that's all that was important really
At 6am on New Years day we took a flight to Washington DC.... stay tuned for part 3 of my trip report!
Day 1 -
Fenway Park, a tea party, Go Bruins!
We arrived in Boston late at night (got the train - so easy!) and checked into the Copley Square Hotel... such a cute hotel with real character. We even got an upgrade!
The hotel breakfast was delicious.... omelettes and eggs and potatoes.... yummmmm. This was our first proper hotel breakfast of the trip!
We did a lap on the Trolley tour, a hop on hop off bus.... Boston is small and the Beacon Hill area looked like it will be fun to explore. At this stage, we were looking forward to connecting the pieces of the puzzle and understanding the history of Boston better.
Our first stop was Fenway Park....as Red Sox supporters, this was important!! We did a tour through the ball park, seeing the Hall of Fame, the visitors change rooms, views from different vantage points and the museum with the signed balls, vintage photos and memorabilia. It was an interesting visit and pretty cool to see. We will have to go back in baseball season! The teams play 81 HOME games a year... and good seats are around $70 a game.... you do the maths. Makes the AFL membership seems pretty cheap here in Australia!
As it was a cold and rainy day, we looked for an inside activity and found one at the Tea Party Museum. Such a great tour.... the story of the famous Boston tea party, told through acting, holograms, talking paintings and a boat that was a replica of the boats that brought the tea into the harbour all those years ago. Yes, we got to throw tea overboard! We all had a 'character' in the story which involved everyone.
We had tickets to a Boston Bruins game, our first ice hockey experience!
The game was more like a performance than a game. We were sitting in the clouds... very high! There were NO supporters of the visiting team that we could see..... the crowd were 100% Bruin fans. When the Bruins scored a goal, there was a party..... screens went nuts with movies of celebration and sirens went off and coloured lights flashed. When the visitors got a goal, NOTHING happened. NOTHING!! All the way through the game, different characters in the audience were featured on the big screens which made the whole game feel like a party. It was a great, fun experience. Was a great start to our stay in Boston!
Day 2 - Christmas Eve - the day we fell in love with Boston
Yesterday, we had a lot of fun and thoroughly enjoyed our day in Boston, thinking it was a lovely place. Today, though, we fell in love with Boston
We took the trolley to Charles St, otherwise known as Antique Lane, a road full of the cutest, most gorgeous shops. Beautiful windows, wreaths everywhere, quaint shops selling gorgeous things. Bye bye credit card! In 2 hours we only really investigated half the street. We spent about an hour in the chocolate shop alone! Just gorgeous.
From there, we met a friend of a friend, who is has been living in Boston for 4 months. Seeing Boston through his eyes was fantastic. We saw gorgeous streets like Acorn St, historical places... like where the Declaration of Independence was signed, where Benjamin Franklin was baptised, where the meetings prior to the Tea Party took place... cobbled streets, Christmas trees, beautiful architecture, so many things to explore and do. We could spend a day in Beacon Hill taking photos!
For dinner, we decided to go to the Fairmont and try their restaurant.... beautiful food - I had lobster - yum - so tasty and Tom had chicken that was delicious as well. We got talking to 2 men next to us and they gave us so many ideas for our time here, as well as potential ideas for after Boston. Again, the generosity of strangers in spending time helping us out was amazing.
Brilliant day.... love love love Boston
Day 3 - Christmas Day
Our first Christmas Day away from home! We originally had 2 reservations, but on advice from locals we cancelled both and went to a lovely Italian restaurant in the North End. Cantina Italiana was lovely- lovely service and food. Prawns and meatballs for entree, seafood pasta and chicken / broccoli pasta for mains, beautiful fresh bread .... very nice
It was lovely walking through Boston to get to lunch.... lots of Christmas trees, including the one on Boston Common that is donated each year by Nova Scotia. The closest we got to a white Christmas was seeing the ice skating rink! Today was actually the warmest Boston Christmas for over 50 years!After lunch we wandered back to the Quincy Market area to see the beautiful tree and decorations and explore the Christmas shop.... 2 levels of decorations and today they were all half price
We finished Christmas Day in the Ghirardelli shop and stocked up on our favourite American chocolate Day 4/5
Boxing Day was a lovely relaxing day, where we meandered around Beacon Hill and Little Italy, taking many photos. On the 27th, we met the lovely Saba for our Back Bay photography tour. We meandered around the Back Bay Area, went inside the gorgeous library and saw the bronzed copy of the Declaration of Independence. Seeing all the signatures, especially John Hancock's, was very cool. Wandering around the Back Bay Area, especially seeing the beautiful residential area was lovely. Saba, the guide, was lovely and had some good photo ideas as well as lots of historical information. We liked the tour so much we booked her afternoon tour of the Freedom trail too.
Between tours, Tom and I wandered down the beautiful residential streets, then through the gorgeous public park back to the start of the Freedom trail. Gorgeous walk on a sunny and unseasonably warm day. When I say warm, I was still wearing thermals, a fleece and a jacket.... but I didn't need gloves or a hat today.
December 28
We hired a car for a few days, to explore a little of the New England coast. We started our adventure by driving to the most gorgeous town called Marblehead.
We met a man and his 2 dogs near the Marblehead lighthouse. He had a non commercial lobster licence - so ten pots. He catches around 10-30 lobsters a week and his dogs eat lobster for dinner about 3-4 times a week. When he visits friends on the west coast, his carry on is 30 pounds of fresh lobster!! This was just unbelievable to us!
Currently the off-boat price for lobsters is between $2 and $3 per pound.. So about $7 a kilo! If you're not able to get directly from the boat be prepared to pay as much as $6 a pound! Bear in mind, in Australia we pay around $120 for a lobster!
On our new friends recommendation we had lunch at a restaurant called The Barnacle in Marblehead. We paid about 7 times the price of lobster if we are buying lobster off the boat! We had a WHOLE lobster each for $24.. and that included 2 sides as well!
There's a 17 year wait for a spot to moor the boat.... as its winter, everywhere we look we see 'shrink wrapped' boats, protected for winter.
The houses are gorgeous, wooden and all different colours. Could wander for ages just taking photos and eating lobster!
After eating lobster for half the afternoon, we ventured to Salem for our historical tour. The lady was a tad theatrical and her husband a tad creepy, but the tour was historically accurate from what I know and it was interesting to see different sites in Salem that have significance. We stayed in a hotel that Elizabeth Montgomery stayed in once!
Dec 29
Before our tour of the House of 7 Gables in Salem we wandered back to Marblehead to take photos of the cute little coloured houses and the beautiful mansions. Such a great little place. We then ventured back to Salem.
Salem
You know that feeling when you start a tour, and know from the very first second it's going to be the longest 45 minutes of your life, but there's no escape?No? Well, do the tour of the House of 7 Gables in Salem, make sure 2 tour guides from another company are on the tour too, and you can share the feeling we had at 10am that day!
The House of 7 Gables is the one that inspired the book of the same name. INSPIRED. However, the woman who was a tour guide from another company seemed to think the fictional characters had lived in the house and acted out the book. So, as the layout of the ACTUAL house is different to the house in the FICTIONAL book, the woman kept questioning the poor guide re the book and why rooms were in the wrong place and querying the integrity of her high school English teacher. At different times in the tour the guide asked if we had any questions and we all cringed as we knew who had all the questions.... intermingled into her questions were her attempts to demonstrate her in depth knowledge of the history of the area, which felt more like an attempt to trip the guide up. The tour itself, without the added excitement was pretty boring. The highlight was a hidden staircase which was kind of cool. We decided to leave Salem as the 'witch' like attractions looked cheesy at best and borderline offensive at worst. The one interesting museum was closed, so we headed up the coast.
Exploring up the coast we drove through some very cute little towns with the gorgeous wooden houses, but didn't feel the need to stop until we got to Rockport, a seaside port that is just gorgeous. Rockport was pretty much deserted at this time of year, with about half the shops and most restaurants were closed. Didn't matter though. The harbour was so peaceful and gorgeous, with little boats and wooden buildings. The shopping areas were beautiful to wander through. Was a very nice walk, but very chilly!! Part on the appeal was the fact it was so quiet. I imagine in summer / Autumn it would be a very busy seaside town, wall to wall with people. Would be completely different.
After Rockport we went to Newbury Port, which was bigger and, although the cute buildings were still everywhere, just 'wasn't Rockport'. We had tea there (Lobster pie... could've had lobster risotto, lobster mac n cheese, lobster pasta, lobster roll...) and decided to drive to Maine (Portland) for the night. Got a great deal for a beautiful hotel too! Another upgrade!
Dec 30 - Best day
This morning our intention was to check out Portland. We wandered down to the 'old town' which wasn't really an old town but VERY like Port Adelaide, near where we live! It was cold - about minus 7 - so we were going into many shops just to warm up! When I saw a cheese shop that had samples it was like a dream!! The cheese was all made in Vermont and was delicious. We got talking to the lady about how we'd been hoping to see snow . She suggested if we drive inland about an hour we'd see something as that was heading towards the White Mountains. And this little conversation started the most lovely lovely day!
We got the car and headed inland towards a town called Fryeburg, and as we headed inland we started seeing bits of snow on the sides of the road.... then a frozen lake.... and gradually all of the frozen parts appeared more and more, until we were surrounded by (icy) snow that had fallen a while ago but not melted. So pretty. There were cute little houses everywhere too. We saw a very cool abandoned railway that we had fun taking photos of.... it was very cold so we were basically jumping out of the car, taking photos and then jumping back in the car! After finding Fryeburg we drove on to Conway, just to see more snowy areas. It was just this lovely day driving around the gorgeous countryside and then returning to Portland..... where we had tea on a restaurant inside a boat. The waitress was lovely and funny which made the night even better.... the menu sides included fingerling potatoes, fries, roast potatoes, rice, potato salad and mashed potato! They were the only options for sides... no vegetables or anything. Just starch. I had TWIN lobsters for tea! 2 whole lobsters for $37! 2 lobsters steamed are only about 300 calories!
New Years Eve
New Years Eve was a lovely day, travelling down the coast, with the aim of arriving in Boston early evening. We visited Kennebunkport and a neighbouring village, both very cute little seaside towns, lots of money evident there. Kennebunkport is where Clinton has a house, so you can imagine!
Note to selves: when returning to Boston, on New Years Eve, and your hotel is on the 'Times Square' of Boston, it is not the best idea to try to drive to the front door of your hotel to try and drop off your bags. Also, returning to Boston at 5pm on NYE is not the greatest plan we've ever had....
After finally making our way to return the car nearly an hour after we thought, and then a quick 10 minutes on the subway we made it to our hotel. After a short stop to leave our bags we decided to walk the 5 blocks to the Boston common for the 7pm fireworks.. As we entered the commons the first thing we noticed was the large lake that only 3 days earlier was filled with geese was now all of a sudden frozen solid, around the edge there were plenty of men daring each other to test whether it would take their weight or not. We offered to video their attempts! We randomly chose a place to watch the fireworks and watch 15 minutes of some of the best ones we've ever seen.
Once finished around 100,000 people all of a sudden started leaving the park in every direction and we quickly realised the original plan of catching the subway to Hanover street for dinner would not be the best idea.. Especially as they were now all free. We decided to walk the estimated 1km walk to the restaurant we had chosen for NYE dinner.. Nearly 3kms later we arrived at the restaurant.... called Lucia
We both chose to go with a seafood dinner of prawns for entree and lobster ravioli for the mains. After dinner we headed back to our hotel before the midnight fireworks celebration over the harbour and to pack for the morning flight to Washington.
We checked with the hotel concierge and were told to simply head down to the river 3 blocks from the hotel for a great view of the fireworks, so we decided we could stay in our room til 20 minutes before midnight and then head down.
As we were walking to the waterfront on instructions from the hotel, I was convinced we were in the wrong place as there was no one anywhere near us! When we got to the water it was dark and deserted and only a handful of other people about! Given there were a zillion people at the earlier fireworks, I was pretty sure there would be more than 5 watching the midnight ones.... !
We made friends with another couple who were locals and they were sure we were in the right place too. So, midnight struck.... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Silence. oh hang on, whats that.... far in the distance, behind all the buildings? That'd be the fireworks I am guessing.....!!!! Not quite the midnight we expected, but that's ok..... we were together in Boston and and that's all that was important really
At 6am on New Years day we took a flight to Washington DC.... stay tuned for part 3 of my trip report!
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You do have a good time, don't you?
And it is a lot of fun for me to see a place I know well from the point of view of someone from the other side of the world. I give you a lot of credit for talking to and learning from strangers.
Looking forward to Washington!
And it is a lot of fun for me to see a place I know well from the point of view of someone from the other side of the world. I give you a lot of credit for talking to and learning from strangers.
Looking forward to Washington!
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Enjoyed your trip report.
We will be in Boston in mid October. Taking lots of notes.
Previous to staying in Boston we will be hiring a car. Ist night staying in a B&B in Marblehead. We will stop in Salem and then spend a couple of nights in Ogunquit to hopefully eat some lobster!
We will spend a couple of nights in the White mountains and then 5 nights in Vermont. Hoping to see lots off fall foliage.
Our accommodation in Boston is in the North End. I love reading about your Boston stay,
We will be in Boston in mid October. Taking lots of notes.
Previous to staying in Boston we will be hiring a car. Ist night staying in a B&B in Marblehead. We will stop in Salem and then spend a couple of nights in Ogunquit to hopefully eat some lobster!
We will spend a couple of nights in the White mountains and then 5 nights in Vermont. Hoping to see lots off fall foliage.
Our accommodation in Boston is in the North End. I love reading about your Boston stay,
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Here's a taste for you, aussie_10, the live webcam from Barnacle Billy's (lobster restaurant with great deck) at Perkins' Cove in Ogunquit:
http://www.barnbilly.com/newwebcam.cfm
http://www.barnbilly.com/newwebcam.cfm
Apr 13th, 2015, 03:40 PM
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Wonderful, enthusiastic report. You did a great job reporting on your winter adventure. You had to drive outside of Boston to see snow and a short time later the city experienced non-stop snow, a dexord breaker.
One other correction..the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, another historical city you should visit.
One other correction..the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, another historical city you should visit.
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Aussie_10, Marblehead is beautiful. The North End of Boston will be good to stay as you are near to lots of delicious restaurants (please try Lucia) and alos not far from Beacon Hill.
Thanks to those who corrected me, I appreciate it. We were told several times in Boston the Declaration was signed there, and as we are not good at the history of the USA, we took the guides as correct.
Thanks to those who corrected me, I appreciate it.
We were told several times in Boston the Declaration was signed there, and as we are not good at the history of the USA, we took the guides as correct.
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