So, our story of how we traveled to Boston was quite funny.
We went in 2018 when I was still waiting on my work papers and my husband had a Friday off from his job. I was so excited to visit this city everyone had told me about and proposed to leave on a Thursday afternoon in the month of August.
According to Google Maps we were supposed to get there at 1 am but I was okay because I was well rested and loved a road trip. Little did we know that all the main roads were having maintenance before the winter and huge trucks were everywhere as our reliable Google Maps took us through all the main cities of the East Coast.
The result was that we arrived there at 4 in the morning (never planning on doing this again although fun story to tell our kids in the future). Our A.C. had broken down the minute we took off and it was that time of the year were we still got heat waves. Our car was overheating every time we encountered a road block or red light so, as we were trying to enter Manhattan at midnight, our car started to expell smoke in the middle of a bridge.
My hubby had to valiantly push and luckily there was so much traffic that we could just turn the engine off and let the machine rest.
We escaped through the Bronx and continued switching turns on who got to drive. On our way back, it was so hot that we had to buy a bag of ice to refresh ourselves.
We arrived at our Airbnb near a metro station outside of the downtown and took advantage of our three days in a big way. Boston can be toured easily by foot and metro, so you really don't need to use the car at all, unless you are interested in seeing the surroundings.
For those interested in history, the Freedom Trail and Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum are great places to start. You can choose to join a group tour or go by yourselves reading the information signs.
Boston has a beautiful New England architecture and strolling down its streets allows you to take it all in, like heading to Beacon Hill. Other nice circuits are the Boston Public Garden, where you can take a picture with the Make Way for Ducklings statue in honor of the children's story by Robert McCloskey; strolling along the Seaport District / South Boston Waterfront and shopping on Newbury Street.
The Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Quincy Market offer a variety of flavors to enjoy while listening to music, or passing the iconic bar from the series Cheers. We also recommend going to Toro, a Spanish restaurant where you cannot miss the grilled corn, and Row 34 for seafood.
Please do not leave Boston without trying brunch / breakfast at one of the several locations of Tatte Bakery & Café where the food is insane and the ambiance is beautiful.
And, of course, how can you miss going to the Cambridge side of town to visit Harvard and MIT to peruse through its grounds.
Maybe after this trip, you will have caught some of the Boston accent yourself!
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