20th November- A walk around Boston Town

We looked out of the Hotel window when it was light and we have great views of the office air conditioning plant for next door.  Also the sun was shining on the golden roof  of the nearby State House.

We left the Hotel for a walk through the streets of Boston and initially went through Boston Common which is quite a large park in the middle of the town. We were immediately struck by the number of vagrants around the streets, sleeping in doorways, and standing around in groups and one large group waiting for the soup kitchen to open. No good compared to New York where just about all the vagrants have left town, and no doubt took the United shuttle to Boston.

We continued walking around and arrived in Quincy Market Place which has been extensively rebuilt over the years with new shops.  The inside was full of food shops selling everything from burgers to lobster rolls but the smell of food everywhere was not good at all so we left pretty quickly after walking around. We were intending to do a Harbour Cruise and headed off in that direction and arrived just in time to board a small boat along with 50 or 60 other folks for a fifty minute tour of the harbour which could have easily been accomplished in half the time had they not dwelt on so many facts. They talked a lot about beating the Brits, and then mentioned the useless fact about Boston being level with Lisbon, well that explains the vagrants we thought, see earlier report on Lisbon.

Falun Gung doing Tai Chi in the Park

We noticed that there was an IMAX Cinema so we went there and watched a 3D film of undersea wildlife in Indonesia and Australia.  It was very good indeed and would have been better if a baby had not cried pretty much all the time during the performance.  Misery guts Noel complained but it seemed to go over their heads.

We then walked back to the Quincy Market where they were planning to light up the Christmas tree, we watched that for a while and had previously decided to go back later to the Imax to watch a film called Inception with Leonardo De Caprio and also Michael Cain in a bit part.

This film was the most imaginative, clever, confusing, unbelievable,

exciting, fast moving film we have seen for a long time that we did not fully understand.  Its all about ‘Dreams’ and how they can be made to work for you but boy is it difficult to understand but well worth watching.

And then back to bed