Me and Amy attempted the Boston Freedom Trail today, which took twenty minutes just to walk to the start of the tour and then a good hour to walk around and spot the historical buildings and buildings of interest - we only covered about half of the trail on the map as it was becoming extremely windy and was also getting too dark. I'm really pleased that we walked this tour, as we got to see Boston at its potential. Boston Common was particularly beautiful! The t...

Started snowing so our plan to take part in the Freedom Trail walking tour was squashed, as we didn't fancy walking around in the cold! So we decided to take a short walk to the Boston Observatory - but once there we were told that it would be to foggy to actually see anything from the tower, which was a shame, as I would have loved to have seen Boston from a height. We ended up going to a Jazz and Blues night out with the hostel, which ended up being a really g...

Arranged to go to Harvard with a group of people today. Was a lovely cold, crisp, bright day so we walked over to Cambridge. The walk took about an hour in total, but we had a lot of laughs along the way! Once at the Harvard campus we were able to walk freely around the grounds. The architecture was amazing, with many trees around too. The campus was spread and alot bigger than I expected! On the way back we watched the sun set from the bridge back over to Bost...

Arrived in Boston yesterday - our eight hour greyhound bus journey turned into nine and was a pretty uncomfortable ride. Crossing the border from Canada to the US wasn't as bad as what I'd thought - it took a long time to question everybody once off the coach and me and Amy along with a few other internationals were lead to another room where we had our finger prints scanned and a photo taken, but other than that we weren't interrogated at all...infact, the guard...

Woke up this morning to find it being quite a clear and bright day. By the time we`d got ourselves up and ready it was mid-day and by this time it had started to snow again. Wrapped up extra warm and set off to walk to the "Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec". It was quite mild today; around -4 and compared to the past few days it felt fairly warm! The wind seemed to be picking up but we didn`t think anything of it. It was fairly quiet along the ...