DK Travel : Boston

“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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AM's Free Boston Tours

AM's Free Boston Tours offers FREE Guided Walking Tours covering over 40 of Boston's best historical sites and attractions. These tours, which last about 2.5 hours, are supported only by voluntary tips (gratuities). They are a budget-friendly way for everyone to see the sites, and provide for an excellent introduction to the city.
DeCordova museum and sculpture park

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.
Fenway Park

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.
Hallway Gallery

The Hallway Gallery features from-the-neighborhood artists in a gallery setting about as big as, well, a hallway. Often open late with live jazz, wine and artists at hand to answer questions. Nearby you'll find lots of great bakeries and bars as well.
Jack Kerouac Tour of Lowell

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.
Mike's Pastry

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!
North End Cultural Heritage Tour

This guided walking tour is an exciting time travel expedition that journeys through the layers of history, heritage and culture of Boston’s oldest neighborhood. A local resident guides and narrates a myriad of remarkable anecdotes describing customs and traditions in the most romantic village in America, Boston’s “Little Italy.” This entertaining tour can be custom designed, in length and content, to meet the distinct interest of any group. The North End Cultural Heritage Tour is perfect for children and adults to explore and discover the transitions of Boston’s most vibrant village.
Panopticon Gallery

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.
PhotoWalks

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
PhotoWalks of Boston

PhotoWalks is the premier provider of photo tours in Boston. Each guided walking tour is presented with fascinating commentary and photography tips. Explore this historic city from a different angle and capture amazing photographs while sightseeing. Learn how to see creatively. All ages and skill levels welcome.

Five separate PhotoWalks tours are offered:

• Beacon Hill (year round) • Back Bay (year round) • Freedom Trail *includes the North End (year round) • Public Garden • Waterfront

Tour prices for 2009: $30 adults, $12 (youth 10-17), $8 (children 8-11). Includes the e-booklet, PhotoWalks Guide to Creative Photography. Tours are approximately 90 minutes.

www.photowalks.com (617) 851-2273 E-Mail: saba@photowalks.com