Fairfield Inn By Marriott Boston/Tewksbury

... in the side street to the stadium.....wicked.

On checking in there were 2 Irish guys that had a oint or two and one of them decided we were long lost friends and talked to us for ages. Linda mentioned that it was out honeymoon and I was here to see a game and he told the check in dood to either upgrade us or give us his room and he'll take ours.....
Not sure if we were upgraded, but this place is nice......Will take some pics in the morning....sleep to catch as it is now 03:30.

Our last days in New York were spent manically trying to squeeze in everything that we had missed during the week. We caught the Staten Island Ferry and got some good shots of the Statue of Liberty, went walking down Fifth Avenue to see if we could find the things we needed in the shops and we took a stroll through beautiful Central Park. We went out local on Friday then out to the city on Saturday, both were highly enjoyable in different ways, but hung out with ...

... all the attendant cords, chargers and transformers as well as a US cell phone and a NZ cell phone. Our electronic paraphernalia takes up most of one carry on bag! I have a few more things to "pick up" before we leave. We are almost ready. Keep your eye on this blog for weekly updates on our travels.

loved the flight, and the hospitality of the BA business class experience. I even had a facial as I though it would be done by a dolly. Then some big gay guy came out to 'facial' me. I was petrified. I have to say that he did a really good job though!!

I REALLY made the most of the free champagne and wine on the flight too. Legs were a bit wobbly on my return to the good old US and A!

... of trying) so we had to get a taxi back to the hotel to get our passports, and the cheeky driver reset the meter while he was waiting for us!! So…if you want to drink in Massachusetts, you need your passport. It was a bit annoying to return with the place much busier, to see no sign of the guy anywhere, and nobody asked for ID. We lost our seats at the bar too.

Superbowl was good, but there wasn’t really much atmosphere in the bar ...

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... we went on a trolley car tour thing that we pretty fun. I learned a lot. Then we went walking on the freedom trial. That was fun it run all throughout the city. So we saw a lot city also. After that we kinda git hungry so we went to the north side to get some Italian food. The place we went to was pretty good.

... is.

Anyway, we weren't able to go to Robben Island, where Nelson
Mandela was imprisoned because it was Public Holiday Week, or a
variation, which involved everything being closed for 3 of the 6 days
we were here, not including a Sunday. We were able to go to the
Natioanl Jewish Museum, which was so crazy and facinating because I had
no idea how many Jews were in South Africa! The first Jews came in the
1600s, but it wasn't until 1840s that a huge influx ...

... so this is the necessary little paragraph in which I give a bald-faced plea for donations to the traveling fund. Just click on the "support my travels" link on the homepage of the blog to do so. Profusely, if you so desire. I'm going light and on a shoestring again, petrol, food, lodging and perhaps beer come before disposable rupees for internet time, so every bit helps to bring you the next entry. I couldn't have done it last time without your ...

... dinner, we had a little more time to kill, but could not go very far. We decided to head right back over to Quincy Market (the second time of the day). It was just such a neat area! If you're ever planning to go to Boston, you need to be ready to walk. It is nicknamed "The Walking City" for a reason. We did not take any kind of public transportation except for the train into the city. Our feet provided the ...