Arrived Boston

We walked to Penn Station, basically around the corner from the hotel. Found the correct train and spent an interesting 4 hours travelling through the countryside to Boston. We were glad we’d paid the extra $20 to go business as the carriage was empty and the seats wide and comfortable.

 Leaving New York

The countryside was bare and brown& there were patches of snow from a few days ago but the views around the coastal/ estuary areas were very pretty.

We had a G & T and as I put the tray table down the ice and drink went everywhere - very similar to the plane trip from LA to NYC when we suddenly hit turbulence (no warning) I managed to save the G & T but had a glass of water all over me! Am getting used to drying myself out.

Taxi to the apartment we are staying in - all very pleasant up on 10th floor with a great view.

Apartment

Found our way to the supermarket for supplies. I always feel embarrassed when  you see supermarkets overseas compared to those at home - ours are inferior!

Cooked dinner, drank some wine & are now trying to work out washing machine!

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Caught a cab to the harbour area of Boston where we jumped onto a tourist bus which travelled
around the city. It’s a lovely city and we enjoyed the tour, even though we didn’t have too much knowledge of the history of this area..

It was an extremely cold day so after the tour we wandered into a local pub for some warmth! I tried the 'New England Clam Chowder’ which was very tasty. Later we wandered around an interesting market before heading back to the apartment. We called into the supermarket to stock up on food as it was too cold to wander out for dinner. When we came out of the supermarket we walked into heavy snow! The weather men had predicted it but when do you ever believe them?

By the time we arrived home we were covered.

FREEZING!!