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09 April 2010

Advice for a day in Boston I'll be at a loose end in Boston on the last Saturday in May.→[More:] My plane arrives ridiculously early in the morning and there's nothing I need to do till about 5:30 pm. I'll be staying at some giant central Sheraton.

I haven't been to Boston since I was a kid, so I don't know the place at all. I have a couple of questions.

1) How should I spend the day? What should I see? I'll have a small shoulder bag with me but nothing monstrous or wheeled.

2) Anyone up for a mid-day meetup?

post by: tangerine at: 13:10 | 12 comments

Aquarium?
Duck Boat tour?
Fanieul Hall?
Computer Museum?

posted by plinth 09 April | 14:39

Nooooo! I will be at a wedding in Georgia Memorial Day weekend!

posted by Eideteker 09 April | 15:51

Is that Memorial Day weekend?

I will be in Boston that weekend, and a bunch of plans just fell through? Because all of 'dudes friends had last-minute bachelor parties and memorials of veteran forefathers and such. We can totally meet up.

If you want to do touristy things there's Fanieul Hall and the, like, Freedome Walk, which basically starts you right in the heart of Boston and walks you all the way out to the bay (with a bunch of historical bars and houses along the way, plus a Holocaust memorial). Definitely not something I'd want to tote a duffel bag along, but a messenger bag might be OK.

posted by muddgirl 09 April | 16:30

The extra "e" is for historical authenticity.

posted by muddgirl 09 April | 16:34

I think you'd like the Freedom(e) Walk, tangerine. I mostly recommend it because I used to work in the North End, and I think you'd get a kick out of the North End. But besides it's kick-getting factor, it's also just a really cool ooooooold East Coast setting.

posted by mudpuppie 09 April | 16:58

Yeah, I had fun running around the North End when I was there a couple years ago.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum is just wonderful, and only about a block off of the T.

posted by Madamina 09 April | 18:21

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Tangerine AND Muddgirl?

Dammit dammit dammit!

posted by Eideteker 09 April | 20:50

Neato. It's hard for me to predict that far ahead, but I'm very close to Boston and would love to meet you both. There is lots to do. Please keep me posted.

posted by Miko 09 April | 21:12

The Freedom(e) walk sounds perfecte, and will supply extra incentive to packe lighte. Yay Muddgirl! This is going to be funne. And I hope it works out for Miko too.

posted by tangerine 09 April | 23:26

oooOoOOoo I might be free that day.

posted by initapplette 10 April | 22:12

I hope so!

posted by tangerine 11 April | 18:31

I am going to be in Boston this afternoon most likely!

posted by Lipstick Thespian 29 May | 08:45

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