Posts Tagged ‘ Boston ’

Day 85 (19.ix.08)

Well my friends, here we are – tomorrow I get to catch a mid-afternoon flight from Pearson International airport that arrives back in England at some point in the late hours of Saturday according to EST, but in the early hours of Sunday by GMT. Assuming the in-flight entertainment, for whose quality I have little [ READ MORE ]

Day 80 (14.ix.08)

I think it’s just impossible to find a good, or even decent, hostel in New York. The only advantage my current one, situated in the generic Upper West Side area, has over the Twelve Towns Pit of Satan I tried to stay in the first time I was here, is the area itself. The room [ READ MORE ]

Day 79 (13.ix.08)

Last day in Boston, and my cold has all but disappeared. Today was a combination of last walks round various areas I’d visited numerous times over the last fortnight, and lengthy chats with my room-mates. In the latter category belong the continuation of yesterday evening’s Mock the Week-based banter with the American rhetorician (name of [ READ MORE ]

Day 78 (12.ix.08)

Excellent news, comrades – the cold is retreating. Virus activity is down 37%, and the loyal strongholds of Sinus and Trachea have been relieved by the forces of Marshal Vitamin C and Commissar Aspirin… Right, I think I’ll turn off TUC mode now. But yes, I am feeling better, partially through the sheer volume of [ READ MORE ]

Day 76 (10.ix.08)

The comedy last night wasn’t as good as it had been the week before, partially because several of the acts were the same, and all but one of those did identical routines to last time, and also because the ‘new’ acts weren’t all that funny. Even the host Jim Lauletta admitted it wasn’t exactly his [ READ MORE ]

Day 75 (9.ix.08)

It’s raining outside, so I’m back in the hostel a good deal earlier than I’d have liked. It was fine this morning, though, so I was able to complete my initial plan to take a look round the Back Bay Fens – the weather was, in fact, perfect, with a mild breeze keeping the soaring [ READ MORE ]

Day 73 (7.ix.08)

I actually ended up uploading a lot of photos to Facebook yesterday evening, namely the ones from this year’s Eton Fourth of June, the ball at St Johns College, Oxford, at the end of 9th week, and my trip to Princeton about two-and-a-bit weeks ago, and it was dealing with the backlog of comments on [ READ MORE ]

Day 72 (6.ix.08)

After yesterday’s scientific bombardment, I needed a little bit of greenery today to air my brain somewhat. So, after messaging Izzy B-J and chatting to Constanze D, I wandered down to where Massachusetts Avenue met the shoreline of the Charles River and wound my way down the ramp to the Esplanade. It had rained overnight, [ READ MORE ]

Day 70 (4.ix.08)

I discovered Boston’s equivalent of Oxford Street in London today – it’s called Boylston Street, and has a rather impressive range of shops on it. I can see myself spending quite a bit of time on there window-shopping and browsing generally, and I began today by inspecting the local branch of Borders’. Surprisingly different from [ READ MORE ]

Day 68 (2.ix.08)

Nothing really surprises me here any more. Thanks to my deeply disenchanting experiences yesterday, I lowered my expectations appropriately to the lowest possible point, so that everything that goes well from now on will be a pleasant surprise. It’s just as well I did so, because today was frankly surreal and a little bit depressing. [ READ MORE ]

Day 67 (1.ix.08)

Boston. What a way to mark (just about) two months since I boarded the plane to Toronto all but clueless as to what awaited me on the other side. The city where the War of Independence kicked off with Paul Revere and the tea-party, guaranteeing it iconic status in the eyes of all later generations [ READ MORE ]

Day 66 (31.viii.08)

I’ve pretty much just arrived at my hostel in Boston (it’s 17:45) after sitting in an Amtrak train for most of the day – the place I’m in is much more like a proper youth hostel, with crummy walls, cheap carpets and curtains, and those things on the bunks that you use to stop babies [ READ MORE ]

Day 65 (30.viii.08)

Last day in DC, since tomorrow I have to get up at some god-awful time to take the 7-hour train to Boston for the next stage of my trip. Orin the Israeli guy and Will F both left early this morning, so at the moment it’s just Tim (dozing in his bed at the moment), [ READ MORE ]

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