Got a taxi driver from hell from the ship to the apartment. I don’t know what it is about taxi frivers but they just don't like us..or maybe it's me.
He almost had a stand up fight with another taxi driver.
The supervisor had to calm him down.
Max 13*C here today and windy. We walked everywhere in down
parkers and we weren’t hot. 24,000 steps.
Police here in Boston wear beanies!
Ronnie wouldn’t let me take a photo
because he had a gun…
because he had a gun…
In Back Bay where we are staying they have converted roads into a green
way for people to walk and to have garden areas and dog playgrounds.
way for people to walk and to have garden areas and dog playgrounds.
SW Corridor path on the way to The Boston Common.
Trinity Church.
Trinity Church front entrance.
Trinity Church reflected in a nearby glass skyscraper.
This is one of the nice things about Boston - a mixture of old and new that I think works.
The Parkman Bandstand 1912 on Boston Common. They had cows on the
common for 200 years but they were removed in 1830.
The Boston Public Garden.
Boston Public Garden.
We went on a HUB tour of the Freedom Trail with 12 others for 2+ hours.
Zoe is an ex economic history professor so she was a good guide.
The founders memorial 1760.
We started the Freedom walk from here.
Boston is where events that emancipated the settlers from the oppressive reign of Britain occurred. But the founding fathers all had black slaves and there wasn’t much talk at the time of emancipating them.
The British told the First Nations people the could have the land west of the Appalachian Mountain range but the Settlers wanted it all.
In 1780 Boston was free from British rule and in 1783 slavery was abolished in Massachusetts.
Boston Common skating rink - no ice until winter.
Boston State House built in 1798 the first built in the US not a symbol
of British occupation. The original roof was timber shingles,
then copper then in 1874 it was made of gold.
Boston State House.
Granary Burial Ground 1660.
Paul Revere’s gravestone.
Born in 1735 and died in 1818 at the age of 83.
Paul Revere’s original gravestone.
King’s Chapel 1754.
Memorial sculpture beside King’s Chapel called “Unbound” honouring
219 children, women and men (that can be traced) who were
enslaved by past ministers and members of the King’s Chapel.
The original building that housed Boston Latin School. Founded in 1635. The first
school in the US offering free education to boys only until it became co-ed
in 1972. It still exists in different location and still requires Latin to be studied
for 4 years. It was the City Hall after the school moved but now it is a steakhouse.
The old State house built in 1723 the lion (England) and unicorn (Scotland) on
the top were signs of British colonial authority. The Boston massacre
occurred in the street here in 1770.
Paul Revere moved into this house in 1770. It was built in 1680 and miraculously
survived the 1711 and 1760 fires and is the oldest timber house in Boston.
A statue of Paul Revere on a horse. In Boston Revere learnt
that British troops were planning to move by sea to Cambridge
and then march to Lexington and Concord.
He rode through the night warning patriots in Lexington and
Concord of the impending attack.
The signal lights in the Old North Church warned that the British
were coming by sea. Ronnie was looking for the lights.
View towards Cambridge.
This bronze sculpture “Make Way for Ducklings” in the Boston Public Gardens
is a tribute to Robert McCloskey’s 1941 classic, award winning book
about a mother duck and her 8 ducklings who made their way through
the Boston Streets to the Public Gardens.
Two Squirrels on Boston Common.
Two Squirrels on Boston Public Gardens.
Canada geese in the Boston Public Garden frog pond.
Quincy Markets 1824. A variety of food and souvenir shops.
This is the apartment where we are staying. Copley House.
