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Day 15 - It's like Bunker Hill...ahh, who cares?
A Travel Blog entry by monahan from Arlington, Virginia, United States
... see the top half) I told the girls to look up at what might be their only view of it – “It’s like Bunker Hill…but bigger…and more important.” Nobody really cared at this point anyway…. We finally got to our ...
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The Pennine Way IV: Tan Hill to Alston
A Travel Blog entry by joelandfi from Alston, England, United Kingdom
... miles along the river to Alston. Our campsite was in a trailer park just off the town junkyard; the bathrooms were in a bizarre bunker reached through an old underground petrol tank that had been turned into a tunnel. We were joined there by our friend B ...
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Runaway Strategy: Plan Francisco
A Travel Blog entry by here-then-gone from San Francisco, California, United States
... was pretty successful in smashing up British ships in the war of 1812, I guess this does not include us. I also climbed the Bunker Hill Monument, which confusingly commmemorates a battle that was fought on Breeds Hill, and which the British won. I think ...
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First stop of the north Americas
A Travel Blog entry by catndeano from Los Angeles, California, United States
... , which is full of curves and shiny metal walls, it's quite a fantastic looking building. We then walked back via Bunker Hill and the financial district to the hotel for a rest. At around 7pm we went out to a cafe for chilli, cheese and chips (shared) for ...
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The beginnings of a nation
A Travel Blog entry by oliver10 from Boston, Massachusetts, United States
... ship but couldn’t go on board as we needed our passports as id, which were back at the hotel. Then on to the final stop at Bunker Hill memorial commemorating the first major battle of the American Revolution on June 17 1775. Harvard We then took a ...
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Easy Riders
A Travel Blog entry by moniandjason from Hue, Vietnam
... morning and again in the afternoon). We stayed to watch 30 minutes of their morning ritual. Our next stop was Vong Canh Hill (Bunker Hill) which was a place where we saw a few American bunkers used during the Vietnam War. The bunkers were really small and ...
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Hue (udtales: hway)
A Travel Blog entry by nannaogsigurd from Hue, Vietnam
... ved buddhistisk tempel saaledes, at vi kom lige til sang og musik. Vi koerte efter besoeget i templet videre til "Bunker Hill", hvor der laa tre amerikanske bunkere fra Vietnamkrigen (kaldet The American War af vietnameserne), som spejdede udover Perfume ...
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Friendly Hue
A Travel Blog entry by rachel_john from Hue, Vietnam
... visit Tu Hien pagoda, where we see monks chanting and praying in the misty gloom of the wooden temple complex. We drive up to bunker hill, an old American gun position with a commanding view over a bend in the perfume river. In the greyness of the morning ...
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Ducks, secret sneakers and history - but quiet
A Travel Blog entry by fritz51 from Boston, Massachusetts, United States
... , his family, Vietnam war, WWII and the night's Stanley Cup final game we got a potted history of Boston and its part in shaping America. Bunker Hill, Paul Revere, the Tea Party, Samuel Adams and the 'Big Dig' - that's a more modern story. We did pass the ...
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Hue - what - where
A Travel Blog entry by pixelchick from Hue, Vietnam
... off on our tour of the city. We started at a Japanese bridge which was built over two hundred years ago before moving on to bunker hill which had a few bunkers built by the French during the second world war to guard over the river. The view from the top ...
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!
A Travel Blog entry by cgibbons18 from Providence, Rhode Island, United States
... forced to hang her head for approximately an hour. - Walked the Charlestown Bridge over to Charlestown where the Bunker Hill Monument and the U.S.S. Constitution are located. We did not trek all the way up to Bunker Hill because we ...
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day 40
A Travel Blog entry by twowombats from Boston, Massachusetts, United States
... once more in the elements, we walk quickly to the Bunker Hill monument, following the red line, and then, investigate the battle of Bunker Hill museum, across the street, which wasn't at Bunker Hill at all - won by the British, but because they suffered a ...
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Along The Freedom Trail
A Travel Blog entry by royv1 from Boston, Massachusetts, United States
... feet were just not in the mood. Instead we just sat around the waterfront taking in the cool air and admiring the views of Bunker Hill Monument as well as the new Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge. We had initially wanted to make a drive down to the Sam Adams ...
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A Duck, Some Penguins and a Tavern
A Travel Blog entry by mbberg from Revere, Massachusetts, United States
... elected officials should go up there and look around so they can learn what can be accomplished when Americans work together. Finished with Bunker Hill, it was back onto the Trolley where we looped around the rest of the city. We ended up back at ...
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Boston
A Travel Blog entry by mrsdp from Boston, Massachusetts, United States
... be a bit cynical here, Reveres story sounds very much like the battle of Marathon story.) It was a great walk ending in Bunker Hill Monument commemorating the Bunker Hill Battle. There is a 221foot obelisk standing proud on a hill, accessed by a ...
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Une petite page d'histoire
A Travel Blog entry by otherguru from Boston, Massachusetts, United States
... annales. La guerre de l’Indépendance avait commencé. Le 17 juin 1775, Boston fut le théâtre de la sanglante bataille de Bunker Hill. Un obélisque en granit de 61 mètres commémore ce tournant de la guerre où les colons mal armés mais ...
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Joined the Motorbike clan
A Travel Blog entry by cunny58 from Hue 2, Vietnam
... we finished. Spent a ½ hour after lunch having a rest on mats laid out by the monks. Back on the bikes & we went to Bunker Hill - Occupied by US during the war to control supplies going up the Ho Chi Min trail. Rather moving as there were lumps of ...
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Hue and the country villages
A Travel Blog entry by cunny58 from Hue, Vietnam
... we finished. Spent a ½ hour after lunch having a rest on mats laid out by the monks. Back on the bikes & we went to Bunker Hill - Occupied by US during the war to control supplies going up the Ho Chi Min trail. Rather moving as there were lumps of ...
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Has anyone seen my humbugs?
A Travel Blog entry by elrigster from Boston, Massachusetts, United States
... throw the towel in and i insist that we push on following the route to the letter to make it across the river and see the bunker hill monument and the old ironside British ship of which i had not yet seen in Boston. I must admit my enthusiasm is not that ...
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Seals and Friends
A Travel Blog entry by jose from Boston again - and Cape Cod!, Massachusetts, United States
... me to see more sights in Boston that evening than I'd seen in the total of three weeks I'd spent there until that night - the Bunker Hill monument (which is not on Bunker Hill, but whatever) was especially cool. As was our cab driver, Thomas who was sweet ...
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