Boston
Boston city can be regarded in two different perspectives. For Americans it's a great place filled with American history. For everyone else it's... nothing special. It's a nice place though! From were we are living, it took about one hour with bus to the city. Already from the bus, as we arrived in Boston, I noticed the buildings here are quite interesting and very different from each other. Not only do they have interesting shapes, it's a great mix of old and new building, fancy and just industry looking, and with one or two old fashioned European style here and there. Starting at the bus and train station, this is what we first encountered.
A very suspcious looking man!
Now I was told that there is a restaurant here that serves "not just Mexican food, but gooooooood Mexican food!" It's called Chipotle, and basically it's burritos served in different ways. Here is a burito bowl.
And it sure was good!! The restaurant is really popular in the States and you can find it in many cities. It's owned by Mcdonalds btw. Lol.
Is there any country more patriotic than the States?
This park is called Boston Common and is in the middle of the city.
State house with some restoration going on at the top, making it look pretty funny!
A pond
A duck not afraid of humans at all!
Swan boat meets a swan
In Boston they have something called "Freedom trail", which is a trail through the city that passes by almost everything worth visiting that is connected to the American history. You all heard about the Boston Tea Party right? Americans throwing the Brittains' tea chests into the sea which led to a war where Americans freed themselves from the Brittish ruling.
And the trail looks like this:
First stop is the Park Street Church where some guy delivered the first speech about freeing slaves. It's like any other old churches.
This building has a very fancy name: King's Chapel, and was the first unitarian church in the States.
Inside the church
And here, wow there is a list of every famous people (or anyone just making something worth mentioning) who have been sitting at any of the seats in the church! Amazing...... (not really, I didn't even recognized most of the names. They are only famous in Boston area).
Old city hall with a statue of Abraham Lincoln
Hello there!
Old state house
With a subway station underneath!!!!
We didn't walk through the whole freedom trail but we saw most of it, which made me come to the conclusion: Americans seems to take very small things or details in their history and makes it very big. For example, one of the houses we didn't go to was the house of a normal person who's big controbution to the history was simply to warn the soldiers the Brittish army is on it's way to attack. Well for sure it was a good thing, but would seeing the house he lived in be that special? Nah. And so on. Probably it's like this since the American history is actually only 200 years old so, compared to all the great things I saw in China, I didn't feel like I found many interesting things to take pictures of to show you. So, I'm going to show more food pictures instead! We ended the day in Boston by going to a all-you-can-eat Japanese restaurant! (Paying one sum and eating as much as you can).
And they had so many different kinds of sushi and it was all delicous! Almost as good as in Japan! (Except for that egg thing, that was wierd....)
However their tempura was a great failure. Totally tasteless. Not at all like the ones I tried in Japan.
Udon noodles and Gyoza (fried dumplings). Also pretty good.
Nom nom
But the sushi was the best of all the dishes. When I was full, my boyfriend went ahead ordering more sushi of the kind I don't like. Like squid (the white one) and more of the egg sushi.
As the dessert, Japanese ice cream. Green tea and red beans. Yum!
That was it from Boston. I like the city! But not the most interesting place for tourists. I'm sure New York City will have a lot more to take pictures of. Just hope it won't rain while we are there....
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Hej Annika, kul med alla bilder från Boston. Det ser ut som om ni äter ordentligt också. Härligt när maten smakar bra. Kram Malou
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