To be honest, I don't really know why I should find it surprising that parts of Boston have so much in common with London - after all, the "founding fathers" did originally set out from England all those years ago for Plymouth in New England, and it's probably not too much of a stretch to imagine that they immediately set about making sure everything was exactly as they liked it to be back home. Certainly, all the place names in this area remind me of home. As th...

Back in 1992, I flew out to Boston in Massachusetts for a two week tour of New England during the Autumn - or "the fall" as they insist on calling it in the US. Seems a bit unoriginal really to call it that just because the leaves are falling - they don't call the summer "the shine" or the winter "the freezing my nuts off" do they? Anyway, what follows are my journals from the time, suitably researched and updated for this volume... A cab collected me from ho...