When we arrived in Boston via bus, we got a taxi to the hotel "The Verb" and Adam hoped the staff were friendly, as the ones in NYC were just bog standard. And they were, super friendly infact, helpful from the minute we stepped in to the minute we left for the airport. This automatically put us in a better mood.
First night was a bit of a waste, we didn't know where we were going, so we just went in the sports bar next to the hotel, which was empty apart from a few die hard baseball fans due to the World Series Final being on. We stayed in there for just the one drink and then headed back to the hotel, but before going back we hit up the dominoes across the road for a late night snack as we'd only had breakfast that day.
Second day came and we had planned to go to Salem with a friend of Adam's. We arrived a little early, so the shops wern't fully decorated yet, but you could see that everyone was out there eager to impress. My favourite part of Salem was the part of the shops that sold Harry Potter merchandise, as you can tell!
There was also nearly a very sad moment on the way back from Salem too. One of the ticket people on the train came flying through the carriages when the grain had been stopped for a few minutes "STAY CALM, THE DRIVER THINKS HE HIT SOMEBODY". Now how the fuck people were supposed to stay calm I will never know, but to be honest, there was no "typical American" over reaction, everybody did stay relatively calm, to our surprise. After the train ride, we had our first proper night out in Boston, there was a strip of bars right behind the hotel, so we stopped off there and had a couple drinks, felt like home a lot more than NYC did, which was the best part of the trip out there!
The daytime in Boston wasn't much to look at, not much close to our apartment, open, (fenway park was next door) and the weather was shit. However, the evenings/night were a different matter. We went watching the Boston Bruins (ice hockey) at the TD garden, which was an amazing experience.
We also went watching the New England Patriots (american football) they dominated the Denver Broncos, that was a good experience, however it was ridiculously cold! If anybody goes to watch an AF game, take a lot of layers!!
This may sound a bit odd, but I think one of the best times of my trip to Boston was going to a store and buying me some flannel shirts! I had been looking all over for them and hadn't found what I wanted, until I eyeballed them! And for $14 I wanted to buy 50 of the things!
And with that, a very quick round-up of what the trip to Boston was like... Next post will be about the beard trim and haircut I get on Friday, peace out!
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