We got up extra early as we had to leave our cabin by
7.30 so we were at breakfast at 6.30 and then headed to the rendezvous location
for our Panoramic Boston with Airport Drop Off excursion.
It was a humid but overcast morning and the tour only included a 30-minute stop but we were whizzed around the city and also through the Harvard and MIT campuses. It seemed we were often on the wrong side of the bus for photos (always the way?), but G still took plenty.
We then arrived at Boston Logan Airport - not the greatest - for our 8 hour wait until the flight.
It was a humid but overcast morning and the tour only included a 30-minute stop but we were whizzed around the city and also through the Harvard and MIT campuses. It seemed we were often on the wrong side of the bus for photos (always the way?), but G still took plenty.
We then arrived at Boston Logan Airport - not the greatest - for our 8 hour wait until the flight.
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| Main runway at Boston Logan Airport |
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| A reminder for another day - Celebrity cabins have 2 x US sockets, 1 x Euro socket, 2 x USB sockets. The light switches are for the light around the mirror above the work surface and for the balcony light |
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| The Cunard Building |
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| Cemetery containing graves of some of the movers and shakers around the time of the American Revolution |
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| The double line of bricks marks out the Freedom Trail in Boston |
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| Oldest public park in the US |
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| Underground station entrance. Boston was the third city in the world and the first in the US to have an underground railway |
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| Cheers! - Bar |
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| The set of 'Cheers' when it was filmed in the studio was three times bigger than the real one and this one - the real one - is now a museum dedicated to the comedy series |
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| Boston's Champs-Elysees! |
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| Hotel for a convenience stop on our tour |
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| 900 foot high mirror! |
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| Nuff said! |
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| The hotel where we had our convenience stop |
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| We're in Harvard land now and here's the Charles River. Not quite the setting that such as Oxford or Cambridge enjoy |
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| Facebook was born on the second floor in 2004 |
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| Fees at Harvard are $85,000 a year and only 3.5% of applicants are accepted. Notable drop outs are Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Both George W Bush and Barack Obama were students here |
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| Only a small amount of colonial architecture now survives in Boston |
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| Freshers' accommodation at Harvard. Students must live in places like this for their first year. After that they are free to stay there or they can live elsewhere. |
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| Harvard Law School is in the columned building to the left. It has supplied more Supreme Court justices than any other single institution |
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| The whole of the Harvard complex is nuclear-powered and the reactor is beneath the dome between the chimney and the trees |
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| Theorems in human form (in white) |
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| We're now close to the finishing line of the Boston Marathon where the lethal bomb was set off in 2013 |
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| Our magic carpet machine has just landed |
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| What a surprise. We're going to be late |
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| I see that these rebellious Americans are now revelling in it all! |
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| What a beauty of a best the aeroplane is |
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| Finally coming in to land |
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| Pit stop at Greggs at Toddington Services on the M1 |
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