Another beautiful morning greeted us, as we packed up our bags and bid farewell to Weirs Beach. It was a lovely place to spend a couple of days and relax, but now we had to answer the age-old question: did they have Boston buns at the Boston Tea Party?

  
Boston was only a couple of hours away and was a very easy drive compared to the previous long hauls. Once we hit the city though, we found ourselves stuck in a traffic jam several kilometres long, which ended up taking almost as long to navigate as the whole trip from Weirs Beach.

Once we hit the hotel and unpacked, we grabbed some lunch from the supermarket then caught the subway using the amusingly named “Charlie Cards” and were soon in the city centre.

Compared to the pedestrian hostile environment near the hotel, this was much better, with lots of streets closed to traffic and lots of people wandering the street. There were some beautiful old buildings as well. Our goal was the docks, in order to take one of Boston’s legendary “Duck” tours – a trip round the city and harbour in an amphibious vehicle. 

 
Our guide and driver/pilot were very amusing and kept us entertained for the whole trip. There were some amazing luxury boats moored off the docks – yours to hire for a mere 90000 a day. Ouch!

Once we were back on dry land we toured a few of the notable historic areas of Boston, tracing the birth of the American Revolution and finding out about some of Boston’s famous people. We also learned the origin of the word “hooker” so it was quite educational all up. E had a great time for half the trip and slept for the second half, which made him far and away the best behaved kid on board. 

 After we were done we grabbed a nice dinner, including some amazingly good clam chowder, then headed back to the hotel. A fun day!