I'm writing today from our cabin in the woods in Vermont and we've got loads to tell you. I'm sure I won't get through it all on this sitting so it may take a few blog entries to bring you up to date. So, here we go ...
Starting on Saturday August 17th:
Barry's first day off. He'd been desperate for an adrenaline hit so we booked ourselves onto a speedboat trip around Boston harbour. However, it was a speedboat trip with a difference, riding on a mutant codfish named Codzilla created by a chemical accident on one of the harbour islands ... Needless to say, we got very wet and as the Bostonians say, it was WICKED AWESOME!!
On Sunday we went to the Skywalk Observatory at the top of the Prudential Tower, the second tallest building in Boston. It's in the Copley area of Boston (where the Boston marathon ends and thus where the bomb went off earlier this year) and the Observatory offers 360 degree views around Boston and its environs as well as many displays outlining the history of Boston, particularly immigration. We had great views to the west across the harbour to the island; to the north across the Charles River to Cambridge, Harvard and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); to the south to South Boston and to the west to Fenway, Fenway Park (Red Sox ball park), Brookline (our suburb) and a beautiful open square which we had not seen before but which we identified as the Christian Science Square. We went down to the square afterwards having fitted in the obligatory ice cream first) and had a wander round. There was a huge Christian Science temple in one corner with a large, shallow infinity pool in the centre and a few dodgy, oriental-style statues at one end. It was wonderfully calm and peaceful and is one of my favourite parts of Boston so far.
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