Boston

Allie!

Before I tell you about Boston, I have to tell you about Allie. Allie is the crazy American who lives in the room next door to me, and she’s awesome. 

We eat a lot of ramen noodles, and sushi. We watch TV while pretending to do homework. We stay up until stupid hours every Thursday night, when we have our Thirsty Thursday celebrations (learning a new drinking game every week!). We also like random road trips.

On the weekend we decided to randomly road trip to Boston. We stayed at Allie’s Dad’s place just outside of Boston, had breakfast with her Grandma on Sunday morning, then got the train into town. 

Boston is really cool.

It’s a relatively small city, and I don’t think it’s a big “touristy” place, but that’s what I like about it. You can just roam, and enjoy the city. It's pretty.

We went to the Holocaust Memorial, which is depressing but interesting. We had lunch in Faneuil Hall, in which I took more than half an hour to decide on food, because there were just SO many options!

Following the Freedom Trail!

We then embarked on a free tour of the Freedom Trail; which is a trail through Boston of historically significant sites from the American Revolution. Turns out the Boston Massacre was one big mistake, and Paul Revere was pretty damn important! 

Before leaving Boston we had to stop by Mike’s Pastries, which Allie claimed to be the best bakery in the world. I bought a fruit tart and in the two minutes that we were walking to find somewhere to sit, at least six people asked us where the bakery was, or if it was really worth the queue, or just simply remarked “Ohh, Mike’s Pastries, good choice!!”. Turns out it’s pretty famous! And pretty yummy!

 

I think I’ll be coming back to Boston a few times :) 

Next weekend ... NYC!