After a day of travelling from Philidelphia through New York, our arrival in Boston was met with pouring rain, something we weren’t familar with given the 40 degree heats from the previous destinations. The address of our booking took us too a luxurious hotel, we thought we were in for treat given the price we paid. Not so, we checked in and found out they were taking us to their overflow accomodation, which upon arrival looked like an old hospital, suspicions confirmed when one of the rooms still had the old bed curtains up.

Kev had already been to Boston so we left him to cover the USS Constitution and Bunker hill whilst we took a guided tour of the first half of the Freedom Trail. Before starting though after lots of walking in Washington and Phili in aleady warn out shoes I treated myself to some new trainers, the difference was immediately apparaent when we began our walking.

In the afternoon, we still had a large amount of the trail to follow, containing the USS Constitution and Bunker Hill. We planned to meet Kev later so instead We decided to go for a guided tour of MIT, which would have been good except we were visiting on the weekend when tours do not run. That didn’t stop us having a snoop around the grounds and investigating some of the lecture theatres, we left our mark in one of the rooms, at least until the next lecturer comes and rubs it off.

On our way back we met Kev, standing outside the Cheers! bar, what luck. We thought it was only fair on ourselves after so much walking we deserved a beer or two and at the same time got more ideas for Miami from some other people in the bar.

The next day we left Kev relaxing in the hostel whilst we went to drop off our bags at left luggage and to used the rest of day to see the USS Constition and Bunker Hill Monument.

We wait for a guided tour of the boat so we could go below deck allowing us to see more than just the top deck and gain a more detailed account of the boats history.

We then walked to the Bunker Hill Monument, 294 steps, no lift, boiling heat. Nice. But worth it for the views from the top of the monument. To get out the heat we went into the Bunker Hill museum, which turned out to be a good choice as it was full of history and a reconstruction, which Mike started and managed to make the other people in the museum jump out of their skin.

Next stop, Montreal (never mind Kev…)