- Sampled at least 20 clam chowders in and near Boston, including attending and voting in Boston's Chowderfest and definitely identified the best clam chowder in the region ( The Lobster Pot, Provincetown)
- Duck Tour where you are driven around Boston on land and in the Charles river by not entirely obnoxious conDUCKtors. Did that one not once, but TWICE.
- Museum of Fine Arts
- Isabella Gardner Museum (also twice)
- Lobster in numerous ways- lobster rolls, lobster bisque, steamed lobster, etc.
- Institute of Contemporary Arts
- Walking and shopping and dining on Newbury street
- Chinatown, where I went nearly every day of the week.
- Harbor islands
- Drank beers from three local breweries
- Walk Harvard and MIT
- Revere Beach, Nantasseraggat beach, Crane beach
- Walked through Salem
- Drove up to Marblehead
- Peabody Essex Museum
- Attended Shakespeare in the Commons
- Drinking with locals
- Cape Cod day trip with beaches, small diners, Provincetown.
- Rockport day trip and bicycling.
- The Union Oyster House Dining Experience and Ye Olde Yankee Gifte Shoppe featuring actual scallop puppets.
- Purchased wayfarer sunglasses and striped tee shirts worn with white canvas shorts and boat shoes.
- BONUS- used a CharlieCard to commute from my Back Bay brownstone apartment to my job in the seaport district
What have I missed?
- Red Sox baseball game
- Getting a drink at Drink
- Taking the swan boats at the public garden
- Whale watching
- New England Aquarium
1 comment:
It is hard to make a city yours, I can imagine. Especially when it is an important one like Boston... I´m telling you I understand because I have been in the same situation. I travelled to Argentina, and went to the capital of the country. Not only was it a much bigger city than the one I come from, but it was a cultural shock. I also drank with locals and that made me feel more adapted but still there was something missin. The one thing that made me feel less like a tourist was the rental of buenos aires apartments. Not staying at a hotel makes the difference: people think that you are a foreigner living abroad and they make you part of society. That was the key for me!
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