Boston

Frasiers seat at the bar in Cheers set bar, Boston

A little snack for lunch at Panera Bread

Not what it looks like, Pat drying her top with handdryer in the ladies after liberal sampling of perfume in swish mall Boston

The Duck ride in Boston

One of Boston's famed gas lights which have been lit for 100 years

Part of the Berlin wall in Boston, not sure why

Bunker Hill Bridge Boston

Outside of Cheers Bar, with tourist bus in front.

Pat & I having a drink in Cheers set bar, chap from Essex in the background

On the way to Boston drove through the most beautiful country, NY, Connecticut, & Massachusetts.   
All the way numerous tolls, all manned, some in southern states the toll was $1 but tolls (pikes) came up fast. What a way to keep down the unemployment!

We stopped at another chain cafe Panera Bread where we had another little snack for  lunch...a snack which would have been hard to jump over! Big salad, with bread (nice) & I sampled the coffee cake (ordinary), these places are meant to be quick but, order & pay at one counter from a menu of 200 items, wait at another counter (the wrong one usually - at this one we were waiting at the preorder counter. Then pick up, then back to preorder for the coffee, then over to counter for sugar, s&p & mayo. Quite exhausting, they should pay us to eat there!
Arrived Boston & very nice city it is, quite unlike NY, clean, lovely buildings, some squares with centre gardens & houses around, reminded me of London. We killed a bit of time in an upmarket mall until our Duck ride, we have seen a few of these in cities we have been through, ones with water obviously. Driver quite a character & he kept it up for 1 & a half hours, through historic parts of Boston, commentary on history of Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere etc & then onto the Boston River for views back to the city. Good fun & tick that one off, have now had a ride in an amphibious vehicle.
Tour guide Teala then dropped Pat & I off at Cheers Bar, (not the real name) which had featured for half a page on the itinerary, & then when we got here it transpires that we were either driving past it in the duck or walking past it if you chose the Freedom walk. Well not these little black ducks, I mean for crying out loud! Anyway great little bar with nice atmosphere, one bar in the first floor is decorated as the set bar & really was the same. Pat sat at Frasiers seat at the bar & we had our tea there & very congenial it was, chatted to a couple from Essex & another couple, him Bostonian & her Florentine. Other members of our tour group had their tea at the Cheesecake Factory, but we were cheesecaked out from the Carnegie Deli in NY. Teala the guide came back & picked us up, along with Chris (who had been let off the leash - joke) & Bill - ditto!
Our accomodation was a Holiday Inn & the best yet since the Sofitel in Miami. Murphys law of course both these have been one-nighters only.