{"id":188,"date":"2007-09-25T04:56:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/boston-a-day-downtown\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T04:56:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T16:56:08","slug":"boston-a-day-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/boston-a-day-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston - A day downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Old<\/a>Sara had left for a wedding, so I was on my own in Boston for the weekend. Boston was at the heart of the American Revolution: the massacre<\/a>, the Tea Party<\/a> (not the Canadian band<\/a>), the Port Act<\/a> and the Siege Of<\/a> are all Wikipedia articles that have the word \"Boston\" in the title, and thus are probably somewhat related. As a citizen of the Rest Of The World, we only received moderate instruction in American history between school and Sesame Street, so I had to figure it out on the tour.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I had the tour guided by the little old lady<\/a> who didn't remember much, rather than the tour by the guy in the period costume<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My Freedom Trail tour took me from Faneuil Hall<\/a>, past the Old State House<\/a>: from the balcony of which<\/a> the Declaration of Independence was read, and the first seat of government in the New World. We went to the birthplace of Ben Franklin<\/a> (inventor of the kite, or the $100 note, or something), the location of the first school in Boston<\/a>, King's Church<\/a>, a beautiful Old City Hall<\/a>, and a butt-ugly New City Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Afterwards, a British street theatre duo twisted themselves into shapes for my amusement, but couldn't really outdo the Edinburgh folk. Plus, his assistant was his 'sister', which seemed just a little too incestuous given some of his banter. They did, however, balance on top of one another on a big rubber ball<\/a>, so mad props to them. Some other street theatre I caught the end of later seemed to involve 20 mins of set-up for a guy to jump over another guy. He wasn't worth a dead president.<\/p>\n

Lunch was very Bostonian: Clam Chowder served in a hollowed-out bun, accompanied by Incan song<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Inner<\/a>For the afternoon, I'd downloaded a podcast<\/a> with a guided walk around the Boston Harbour. This is the inner harbour, and they have lots of water taxis out to the Harbour Islands<\/a> National Park, and other interesting places such as the airport, which is right on the waterfront. There are a lot of seafood<\/a> stores<\/a> and restaurants <\/a>waterfront, as well as some interesting sculpture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a> I love this building. It's the Moakley Federal Courthouse. My brother wanted me to go see where Boston Legal was filmed: unfortunately, the answer is 'California'.<\/p>\n

\"Craig<\/a>I wanted to take some sort of boat excursion to end the day, and walking back from the end of the trip I passed an old schooner<\/a> that I'd walked past earlier <\/a>(where I took a photo of some passers-by for them, and they asked me when I was going back to England.) It sounded like fun, so I spent two hours out on the Roseway<\/a>, a vessel owned by the World Ocean School, which does things like provide team-building exercises to underprivileged kids.<\/p>\n

We passed right under the path to the runway of Logan International Airport<\/a>, saw Fort Warren<\/a>, the US Naval ship Sisler<\/a>, and avoided being run into by oncoming bigger boats.<\/a><\/p>\n

Overall, a fun day out, and my last day in Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sara had left for a wedding, so I was on my own in Boston for the weekend. Boston was at the heart of the American Revolution: the massacre, the Tea Party (not the Canadian band), the Port Act and the Siege Of are all Wikipedia articles that have the word \"Boston\" in the title, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}