I haven’t got round to summing up our trip to Boston yet so here it goes:

Unlike New York which is filled with lots of business people with a lot of money to throw around, I found Boston to be a more student town. Most of the people seemed to be under the age of 21 and not as ’sophisticated’ as the people in New York. I guess this is probably due to MIT, Harvard, Boston University and many other institutes close to the city.

The first thing we noticed when we got there was the really cool boat looking car with everyone on board quacking. We hunted down the boat/cars and were lucky enough to get a ticket on a bright purple one with a hilarious driver who reminded me of Billy Connolly.

The driver gave an interesting and amusing tour of the city before driving the boat/car down a ramp and into the river for some great views of the city.

I drove the car/boat while it was in the water, i’m surprised I didn’t crash the thing given my skills of nearly killing my dad and I TWICE while driving – once when I accelerated a quad too quickly and made the thing fly up into the air, and once while driving a tractor I pressed the accelerator instead of the break and nearly drove into a wall. If it wasn’t for my dads quick thinking in both cases, I could have killed us both!

I found Boston to be a very pretty city, filled with lots of European architecture and nice parks. It was nice to be able to walk alongside the river and see the boats in the harbour. I’ve always thought it was a shame that Manhatten it is surrounded by water yet it is almost impossible to get close to the water as there is a great big highway in the way.

On Sunday it rained and rained and rained. We went to see the US navy’s flag ship ‘Consitution’ and a museum about the ships history. I’m sure the ship would have been more impressive if the weather was better, if they allowed the public to view all the ship rather than a 1/3 (the rest was shut off because they didn’t want people going near the original wood) and if you didn’t have to go through xray machines and metal detectors (I guess i should just be glad there wasn’t any naked scanning machines!).

Being a big history fan, I was disappointed to find the museum very bias in giving an account of USS Constitutions involvement in the War of Independence and glamorised the event unnecessarily. I could write a whole essay on this but instead I’m going to go to be thankful that I fly home in a weeks time.

Conclusion of Boston – defiantly worth a visit if you are on the East side of American but I wouldn’t recommend staying more than a couple of days.