Well we didn't get to bed until 3.15 this morning so so much for our early start. By the time we got up, ready and had something to eat it was around 2pm. We decided we'd still go and do the Freedom Trail although we knew we wouldn't get it all done in the day as the route is so long. There are 16 sites that make up the Freedom Trail- the majority of which are located downtown. 55 years ago the city of Boston realised that these sites were so historically signif...

It's been really nice the past few days here because we haven't had any snow. Today however, it started to snow :( We went to the Prudential Centre today as we were going to go up to the skywalk. It's almost become our little thing- we get to a city we go up it's tallest building! We got the lift up to the 50th floor only to discover that you couldn't see a thing out of the window because of the weather so we didn't waste our money, instead we came back down and...

Today we took a walk with some of the people we've met at the hostel across the bridge over to Cambridge. We were going there to look around Harvard. We got to MIT first which is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the campus is massive! It took ages before we actually reached Harvard. I think it was around an hour's walk! Fairly quiet walking through Cambridge as most of the students have gone home for Christmas. I thought Harvard was big in terms of the...

We had a lie in this morning and had a really good night's sleep which was surprising considering the beds are pretty uncomfortable- you can feel all the springs in the mattress and the room was absolutely freezing this morning!! Got up and had the worst shower. After a late breakfast we signed up at the front desk to go on the tour around Fenway Park- home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team. We're not in baseball season at the moment so we won't be able to see ...