July 2, 2011 – Day 2

Cheers

We may have caught up on the sleep we had been lacking the past couple of weeks and then were out of the hotel by 9am to catch the Trolley for a guided trip around the city. The trolley makes 21 stops in its 21 mile trip and the total trip took 2 ½ hours. You can get on and off at any stop; however, we decided to see the entire city first before making a choice on what to see.

As the trolley tour is a two day ticket, tomorrow we will get off at a number of places.

We finished the tour at 9:30am and took a cab from our hotel to Haymarket Square in the North End, which is home to the largest market in the city. We found a neat pizza place in the market selling pizza by the slice and split a vegetable slice.

North Church - we climbed the bell tower

Then it was on to a 90 minute walking tour of the North End, which is Boston’s oldest neighborhood and it includes Paul Reveres home and the North Church. The guide book said “it is a delightful labyrinth of narrow streets and exotic market places” – which it is and filled with wonderful looking restaurants. It is also a very Italian neighborhood.

We then took the subway to a restaurant called the Barking Crab, which was named one of the top 10 restaurants in Boston. Ed promised Barb that she would have all the sea food she could eat this trip and for the second day, we ate a lot of sea food. Barb had crab cakes and Ed had about 40 – 50 cold boiled shrimp and were we stuffed.

Our last stop for the evening was the old court house to listen to a 1 ½ hour concert by the Middlesex County Volunteers Fife and Drum unit and the were really entertaining to hear an see in their original style uniforms.



A snack!!



Then it was the subway back to the hotel to rest up for tomorrow – which will be full dress rehearsal of the Boston Pops.

Sleep tight!!

Fife & Drum Concert