“The Hub,” “Beantown,” “Baaahstin” – call it what you will, New England’s largest city exists to be explored. Its colonial-era architecture, vibrant seafaring heritage, and irrepressible Yankee character make it one of the country’s most distinctive locales. Yet for all its big-city amenities – world-class restaurants, museums, and shops – Boston remains surprisingly compact and eminently walkable.
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A wonderful surprise of a museum half an hour inland, in the MetroWest suburbs of Boston. Houses changing exhibitions of modern art inside its lovely, airy building, with the best sculpture park in the state outside. The small coffee shop upstairs can be a quiet place to sit an contemplate, looking out over the rolling hills to the west.
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Home to the Boston Red Sox baseball team, Fenway Park opened in 1912. It still has a manual scoreboard. Operating the scoreboard is a much sought-after job. Tours of the ballpark are available and depart from Yakey Way Store, a Red Sox souvenir store across the street. These give visitors a chance to go behind the scenes and visit the press-box among other places.
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About 30 miles north of Boston is the town of Lowell where famed Beat Generation 'On The Road' writer was born, lived and is buried. Travel from Boston's North Station by rail in around 30 minutes. Call in at the Lowell tourist information centre for your maps and information leaflets. Kerouac is buried in Edson cemetary - exact location is provided by the tourist centre. Also call by Jack Kerouac Park on Bridge Street, where tall standing stones, arranged in a Catholic and Buddhist design, are incscribed quotes from Kerouac's many novels.
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A North End institution, this is the absolute best place to get cannoli. Overcrowded all the time, and a total tourist trap, but the cannoli is so good that none of that matters. And it isn't overpriced!
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Founded in 1971, Panopticon Gallery is one of the oldest galleries in the United States dedicated solely to photography. The gallery specializes in 20th Century American Photography and emerging contemporary photography.
Panopticon Gallery is located in the Hotel Commonwealth and is conveniently situated near the Kenmore Square T stop on the Green Line.
The gallery is staffed Tuesday through Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM and Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM.
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My wife and I took a photo tour of Beacon Hill and the Back Bay with PhotoWalks, a tour specialising in providing the history of the area and also tips and ideas on how to photograph unusual and iconic images of Boston. The tour was superb and possibly the best tour we have ever taken on all our globetrotting holidays. Saba Alhadi, the tour guide, was a superb tourguide, her passion for Boston and photography was immediately infectious and fired our love of this wonderful city and photography as an artform. I can highly recommend this tour for inclusion in your guidebooks, it is little known and I we only came across the tour by accident on surfing the internet for information about Boston. I assure you that all those who undertake a tour of Boston, there are 5 tours on offer, will have a wondefully satisfying, informative, relaxing and stimulating few hours with Saba. Her website is www.photowalks.com
Many thanks Paul Cuddeford
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Set in present-day on Newbury Street, SHEAR MADNESS engages audiences of all generations as armchair detectives to help solve the scissor-stabbing murder of a famed concert pianist who lives above the Shear Madness unisex hairstyling studio. The show combines up-to-the-minute improvisational humor and a mixture of audience sleuthing to deliver a unique performance each night. SHEAR MADNESS is now in its 28th year at Charles Playhouse, with performances Tuesday-Sunday.
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This is where Thoreau wrote 'On Walden Pond', and so became the first modern environmentalist. You can walk around the Pond itself in less than an hour, and there isn't a great deal to see. But the feeling of being where this all began is magical. You should combine this with a few other locations in wonderful Concord.
For those not familiar with Thoreau, he was also the key inspiration for the non-violent protest movements of Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. And much more besides.
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An absolutely unmissable excursion. There are various companies offering whalewatching cruises so look around for the best deals. We managed to pick up a "two for one" ticket coupon in a nearby Burger King so make enquiries. The trip was supposed to last for around 2 hours but they make a promise that if you don't see any whales, they refund your money ... so basically they just keep on cruising for as long as it takes to find some ! We had to go all the way down to Cape Cod so it lasted for about 5 hours (same price !!) and we were blown away by the upclose viewing of whales breaching, making bubble nets, splashing - it was absolutely fantastic. Just one word of advice though - don't forget the suncream. It was chilly on deck but everyone ended up with sunburn !!
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