In my wanderings around Boston to follow the Freedom Trail and visit art musems, I walked. The distance to the waterfront was a little further, and in eighty degree (F) heat, it seemed like a good idea to take mass transit in one direction. I was staying at a bed and breakfast in Back Bay,Continue reading “Boston waterfront”
Category Archives: Boston
Boston art day
When I planned what I wanted to see in Boston geographically, it easily fell into three groupings: a history day, an art day, and a waterfront day. I chose two museums to fill the art day, the incomparable Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the unique Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum. Both were southwest of myContinue reading “Boston art day”
Boston Freedom Trail
Follow the red brick stripe! The path, starting at the Information Center in Boston Common, a site where colonists gathered to rally, winds through city blocks for two and a half miles, linking historically significant sites from days of the American Revolutionary War, the war for independence from England, and the country’s early years. The trailContinue reading “Boston Freedom Trail”
Boston Common & Public Garden
My bed and breakfast was at the east end of the Back Bay neighborhood, less than one block from Boston Public Garden. I returned the rental car I used for my week in Cape Cod to Logan Airport, took the free shuttle to Back Bay, and walk, walk, walked around Boston from that central location.Continue reading “Boston Common & Public Garden”
Ruth Rosenfeld 