Another trip to the gym to start the day. Luxury! I took the T to the World Trade Center for the Boston Christmas Festival. By not knowing the way, taking a very circuitous route and generally wandering I found myself going in a side door. There were about 1000 stalls selling seasonal food, decorations, [...]
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Boston to Providence
Posted by dkendon on November 8, 2011
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Boston Day 4
I started with another trip to the gym – making the most of my free pass. I have missed my aerobics. Here they have a lot more basketball and football training drills in their routines, and they seem less dancy. Maybe it is just this gym. I had lunch at a market – they seem [...]
Posted by dkendon on November 6, 2011
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Boston Day 3
The US has the cheapest laundry facilities in the world – $1 for a wash and $1 for drying. Hurrah for clean clothes! I took a trip to Lexington – subway to Alewife (about 30 min) then a bus to Lexington central (about 20 min). My first stop was the National Heritage Centre. Sounds fine? [...]
Posted by dkendon on November 6, 2011
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Boston Day 2
The hostel had free breakfast so I made full use of it, having cereal, toast, fruit and ‘yoghurt’. It’s not real yoghurt – more a strange-tasting dairy food. Boston is extremely pretty and I felt like I was walking through a film set – all clean brownstone blocks with deciduous trees lining the footpaths. They [...]
Posted by dkendon on November 6, 2011
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New York to Boston
I got up a bit early and did some exercise around the hostel. It was right next to some housing estates so I did get a few looks while doing chin-ups on the monkey bars. During breakfast (acquired from the previous night’s castoffs) I made a tentative plan for the next few weeks, then there [...]
Posted by dkendon on November 6, 2011
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