BOSTON

Thanks, once again, to “erica”, whoever she is, and her unsecured network I am bringing this edition on Boston.

This building contains every kind of eating place you could imagine as well as other things associated with markets and was our first introduction to Boston after negotiating the traffic system where we got lost despite google and a map.

Restaurants abound.

 

American history is very much to the fore here as this was the birthplace of “modern” America. This is a statue of Samuel Adams who signed the “Declaration of Independence” on July 4th 1774.

Street entertainment.

 

Tall buildings

 

Good weather

 

Massachusets Parliament building.

 

Remember the TV series “CHEERS”? This was the pub it was modelled on.

 

Sitting at the corner of the bar.

 

Flags, app 23,000 of them set out to commemorate those service people of Mass killed in all wars from WW1.

 

Close to the site of “The Boston Massacre” which triggered the revolution to break away from British rule.

 

We went for a ride in a “Duck Boat” like this. We all learned to shout “Quack, quack” in unison at the call of “Man the boats”. This we did at regular intervals sometimes as a response to “drive by” quacks from passersby!

 

Our driver who called himself “Tugboat”. Here we are on the water and a four year old is steering.

Boston skyline from duck boat.

Barry at another “Reproduction” Cheers bar.

 

Boston at twilight.