Boston

Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Mon 5 Aug 2013 01:18
42:21.5N 71:02.6W
I won’t bore you with all the details of our Boston visit. We stayed
for four nights, which was longer than we originally planned, partly because
there is a lot to do in Boston and partly because we felt that the Boston
Harbour Sailing Club mooring balls were such good value at $45 a night, being
right in the heart of Boston (just outside the aquarium).
While in Boston we
![]() Approaching the mooring field in Boston harbour
![]() Setting off on the Super Duck tour of the harbour
![]() The state house, home of the most corrupt group of politicians in America
(so we were told by multiple bus drivers)
![]() The Harvard Lampoon building, designed to look like an astonished Prussian
soldier
![]() Sometimes architects get too whacky and MIT is suing the architect (Gehry)
for this building not being weatherproof
![]() Old Ironsides in all her splendour. The US navy presentation was
excellent and they even had us cheering on the Constitution against the
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