www.discovernewengland.co.uk BOSTON
BOSTON
www.bostonusa.com
As one of the world’s great cities, Boston
ticks all the boxes: a rich history that
includes cultures from around the world, superb
classical music concerts and art museums, renowned universities and
leading-edge architecture, plus acres of parkland and a clean, active harbour and river. Some of North
BOSTON
America’s best chefs and restaurants are here, as are national championship-winning professional sports
teams. And, the city has an effi cient and well-priced public transport system. But, most important are
the Bostonians themselves: cheerful and witty, with a special affection for visitors from Britain and Ireland.
NEW In tune with Boston’s OUT AND ABOUT Boston, a leading-edge museum also has a Chinatown Market Tour
tradition of alternative Part of the ambitious that juts out over the water. that explores one of the USA’s
comedy, the Unoffi cial Tours’ redevelopment along Boston largest Chinese communities.
70-minute walking tours of Harbour is the 47-mile HarborWalk. A WALKING CITY
Harvard University are led by Lined with new parks and Boston boasts that it is a ‘walking FAMILY FUN
high-energy former students. restaurants, this trail provides a city’, and locals certainly walk more When travelling as a family, I always
Think history, insights and different view of the city founded than in any other US city that I want to mix the educational with
groan-worthy jokes about back in 1630. I rent know. What’s more there are lots of the fun. The answer is a Boston Duck
America’s oldest university. a bicycle – a fi rst for me in a fun, themed guided walking tours. Tour, aboard an amphibious bus that
www.harvardtour.com big city – and pedal to the My favourite is Michele Topor’s lumbers round the streets, before
outstanding New England North End Market Tour, where the swooping into the Charles River. On
HIS BOSTON Aquarium, stopping to see the history of Boston’s Italian North the way, the driver-cum-guide laces
Travel writer Andrew Church lists playful penguins. Then I ride on End is blended with a lot of tasting, historical facts with jokes; when he
the highlights in his favourite to the eye-catching ICA, the sipping and munching in delis and gives the signal, we all shout ‘Quack,
American city. Institute of Contemporary Art/ cake shops along the way. Michele quack!’ at pedestrians. My son is a fan
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