It's the only place so far I'd genuinely consider moving to... (And I'm a home bird!) it's so pretty too. The roads are lines with trees and most building are covered with foliage (or at least they are in Southend - we're we stayed) (it's nothing like Essex).
So due to bad feet (and bad weather) we took it well easy which maybe another reason I kind of love Boston. It felt really laid back and easy going. But I suppose it's because we were. For the first time this trip we both just relaxed. We wandered instead of missioned and we strolled instead of stressing.
The first day was all about finding half decent shoes for Jess as the sketches that we bought turned out to actually be too small (oops) and the I soled for my shoes are good for the bottom of my foot but make my heels pretty bad as my shoes then don't really fit... Dilemma! So I decided to give in to my inner hippy/traveller and find some Birkenstocks... This meant shopping (mike was really excited, as you can tell)
Now... They are comfy, but do rub a little but I've read that you have to break them in, which I'm in the process of doing, so fingers crossed by the time we finish I may have a pair of comfy shoes. In the mean time I've been living in flip flops and it's not too bad :)
Post shopping... We had a DUCK tour. Much like the London ones (same vehicle and worry about them bursting into flames) we survived the trip and the awful guiding banter. Being British on the tour was a bit of an eek as of course in Boston the tea party happened and war broke out with the Brits etc.... But you know our guide didn't make a big deal out of it at all..... (Rolls eyes, personally I was waving a miniature British flag the entire time and wanting to stand up and declare war as we wanted our land back... Mike did actually ask if the driver had any tea. I found it funny, I guess it's why I married him aye?) If you don't know why this is funny Google Boston tea party... See hilarious #somuchbanter
That night we went to a wonderful French restaurant around the corner and eat EXCELLENT food. I love France. It was just like a small independent authentic French restaurant except for the Americans... Who I've noticed shout. ALOT. I just want them to tone it down, just a tad. Eek 5 more weeks :/ lol.
The next day after A VERY EXTREME MIDDAY THUNDERSTORM (which we spent wasting time in the hostel... I love my iPad) we went on a proper tour of Boston on the trolley (ding ding) with lots of different drivers (it was hop on hop off kinda vibe) all of them with similar jokes, kind of dad jokes. It was just like a normal Burton holiday so I felt right at home! ;) one actually just talked about his daughter costing him a fortune in college fees (we had hit traffic and I guess he had run out of material) it was fun. In all honesty it was great because it was raining seeing everything with out getting (too) wet. Especially after a very heavy shower the other day I've realised my mac is not waterproof.... Stupid Asda. (The pic below is the rain, not fog... It was insane. But you know a normal summers day in Wales if I'm honest)
THAT night we went to an American live underground jazz club called the Beehive, where the food was great! It wasn't greasy or dinnery it was classy and the food was actually very nice... I had a veggie lasagne with ricotta. It was amazing. There was live jazz and it was just really cool. It felt like the club would fit perfectly in the east end (you know... Where all the hipsters hag out in London) I tried a few cocktails... One tasted like smoke... Like smokey. It was the weirdest thing... I only ordered it because it said cherry... It wasn't cherry. It was odd. "Trendy" I'm not very trendy...
So the next day we had more trolleying as it was a BOGOF deal on ticket days... But we also went to the Boston Tea Party Museum. Which had lots of geeky live actors ourselves included as we were given rolls to play. I was a doctor. I (wrongly) declared mike dead (I was suppose to - just to clear that up) as he has knocked himself unconscious with a box of tea... Silly mike. That's was a silly hour. I did have to disagree with the name of this attraction... I don't think you can call yourself a museum if you only have one artefact. It's all they had. Maybe they should call it an experience... Anyway we came away with a free feather. So all in all it was pretty good deal! (It was free with the trolley tour)
We then went on a mission for lunch, found an Irish pub. Standard, they are everywhere! Where are all the welsh pubs?
We wandered to the park and then decided to make our way back to the hostel and went out for a lobster roll for tea. Sadly that was it for our time in Boston. I want to go back.
Now I haven't mentioned the hostel. It was gross. If you'd like to hear my thoughts on it I have left an honest opinion on trip adviser and I can't be bothered to copy and paste.
We left yesterday and had a long journey down to DC and went back past New York. Today again was kind of lazy. We slept in until about 10 then left the hotel about 11.30 and we found lunch in a dodgy diner and saw the Washington monument and the White House. We sat in Starbucks for 2 hours then grabbed some dim sum in china town before a movie in the cinema. LAZY!!
Tomorrow we doing a 4 hour walking tour of just the national mall... Hahahaaa whoop where are my birks?!
Xxxxxx Jess
Location:Boston
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