21st November- It’s a bit chilly out there

It is expected to be cold today, around one degree centigrade the weather channel says and so we dressed up nice and warm and went for a warming breakfast in a Diner opposite Boston Common.

It wasn’t the best breakfast in the world and most New Yorkers would not have accepted it but it’s Sunday morning in Boston and hardly any shops or restaurants are open.

The sun was great this morning so we went back to the park and walked down to Back Bay where there are some expensive and big houses which are also quite old. Then on down to the river and along the side for a couple of miles until we reached the Railway Station for a necessary comfort break, as they call them here.

We ended up back in the market place and this time there was hardly anybody there and the restaurants were extremely quiet compared to yesterday.

We had lunch in a nice place which was also very quiet. We appreciated this whilst testing a bottle of Chardonnay from Argentina which was very good. We already knew that by mid afternoon when the sun is going down it will be much colder and so we went to another cinema and watched a rather silly movie called ‘Unstoppable’ which was about a runaway train going down the track (with some dodgy chemicals on board), Who Who!! and Denzyl Washington saving hundreds of lives. Of course it all ended happily ever after. Apparently it was based on a real life incident, so be warned do not travel on American Railways. 

George Washington out for a ride in the Park

Then back to the Hotel to print boarding passes for tomorrow. The BA online check-in is a B……y nightmare and I will complain when I get back to the UK, it took almost 35 minutes to check in, Virgin make it so easy by comparison.

Tonight we must pack up for our early departure tomorrow morning. The flight leaves around 0815 and so it will be an alarm call around 05.15, and a taxi around 0600.

We are hoping that 7 hours later we shall touch down in London and be home local time around 9pm in time for a cuppa, a good shower and a good nights sleep in our own bed.

That ends this trips report and the next one will start in a weeks time when we head off to France for three days.