Boston – 2014
Day 1 – 1/7/14
Left NYC on the Acela 2154 at 10.03am bound for Boston,
MA. Spent the first half of the trip
updating my blog and the 2nd half enjoying the New England
Countryside – so pretty!
Arrived at Back Bay station around 1.15pm and caught a cab
straight down to our hotel – Boston Park Plaza on Columbus Ave, Back Bay. She’s a beauty and harks back to the old days
– and such luxury after our stay in NY.
Our
New York apartment was great in its location and view, but the size of space we
had, because owner was there, was limited and we did feel a little restricted
when she was there about what we could do – you know, didn’t want to be too
loud in case we disturbed her, or make too much of a mess. But now in this plaza room – with 2 double
beds – well as I said, complete luxury!
I love this place. It is so different to NY – but that’s a great thing. NY is vibrant and exciting and crazy and manic, and Boston is calm, quiet, pretty and peaceful. Anyway I was loving my walk around so much I got excited and went back to hotel and grabbed Sher and took her down to Copley Square and Prudential building. Sher got some togs (alas this hotel doesn’t have a pool) and I bought some from the store in Prudential, along with some RL shorts.
Snuck out of the room early to go for a walk, this time down
to the harbour. As beautiful as I
remember and even though it was warm (25 degrees at 7.30am!), I was just
bouncing around as I was so happy!
Got back
to the Wharf and headed over to Quincy Market and Fanueli Hall for a bit to eat. The choice of presentation of the food was 2nd
to none but we both settled on a turkey and capsicum kebab. We headed upstairs
thinking the big arch windows were open spaces, but they weren’t! Instead they were magnifying glasses for the
sun. Instead of 33 degrees, we ate and
dripped sweat in what felt like 40 degrees with 100% humidity. We had to get out of there, so we went down
to a pub in Quincy Market and watched Roger the MAN take down Stan the man in
4. Back to the Wimbledon semis – go my
Rogie!!
Sher laid low whilst I went for a walk up Boylston St, to
re-familiarise myself.
I love this place. It is so different to NY – but that’s a great thing. NY is vibrant and exciting and crazy and manic, and Boston is calm, quiet, pretty and peaceful. Anyway I was loving my walk around so much I got excited and went back to hotel and grabbed Sher and took her down to Copley Square and Prudential building. Sher got some togs (alas this hotel doesn’t have a pool) and I bought some from the store in Prudential, along with some RL shorts.
I was on a full cleanse day yesterday so I wasn’t eating.
Sher just wanted something simple, so she grabbed a bite from the food court in
the Prudential centre. Wondered back to
hotel and I re-packed everything and then settled in for the night. Sher
crashed early and I turned in about an hour later.
Can’t wait for the next few days in the New England area.
Day 2 – 2/7/14
Snuck out of the room early to go for a walk, this time down
to the harbour. As beautiful as I
remember and even though it was warm (25 degrees at 7.30am!), I was just
bouncing around as I was so happy!
Got
back to our room around 9am and Sher was up and ready to go. We watched some tennis (Murray was losing,
shame…..) and I bought some tickets for us to do a City View Trolley Tour. We headed down to the cnr of Boston Common
and jumped on our bus and went around, as you do, like a tourist and jumped off
at Long Wharf near the North end of Boston.
Purchased some tickets for Salem (have always wanted to go there), and
set off and finished the tour.
Got back
to the Wharf and headed over to Quincy Market and Fanueli Hall for a bit to eat. The choice of presentation of the food was 2nd
to none but we both settled on a turkey and capsicum kebab. We headed upstairs
thinking the big arch windows were open spaces, but they weren’t! Instead they were magnifying glasses for the
sun. Instead of 33 degrees, we ate and
dripped sweat in what felt like 40 degrees with 100% humidity. We had to get out of there, so we went down
to a pub in Quincy Market and watched Roger the MAN take down Stan the man in
4. Back to the Wimbledon semis – go my
Rogie!!
We then headed back over to the
wharf to head over on the Salem Ferry to Salem.
It was a 55 minute trip and the trip was so relaxing! Arrived in Salem and it seriously is very
pretty but so so quiet! We did a Salem
witch tour which was a bit of fun then headed to the Tavern on Square for a
bite to eat and a drink (me, beers!).
Headed down to the Salem wharf where I had another corona at
the Landing and rode home, avoiding a storm the whole way – it was lovely and
refreshing with the wind blowing my hair all over the place – so much so I
couldn’t see at times, but I didn’t care.
After the hot day we had the reprieve was just what I needed.
It took us about 30 minutes to walk home so I rewarded
myself with a Ben and Jerry ice cream (Sher’s fault (she was the one who wanted
the ice cream!)) and settled in to watch the Red Sox and rest the blisters on the
bottom of my small toes L
Tomorrow we have a reflexology session booked (my feet are
thanking me already) and then heading into Max Brenner’s (I know, another treat
but I am having a cleanser in the morning).
Also have tickets to a sport museum and then nothing really
planned. Doing MJ’s tomorrow night
because there are only a few Irish bars in Boston……NOT! But this one we do have
a $10 discount card and it is just under our hotel, so my feet will thank me
again!
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