Hmmm…after a long time I am back to blog page, just could not resist myself from writing about my SMALL vacation and BIG relaxing break. After brainstorming a lot, me n my husband could come up with consensus where we can go during memorial day long weekend…yeah it is Boston.
Planning was perfect and homework was very good, hence we could enjoy the way we wanted. 240 miles from my home and we could cover it up in just 3.5 hours. (You have to consider NJ/NY trafficJ). And here I am really appreciating Holiday Inn staff for letting us check-in early by 3 hours!! Our hotel was in Woburn, MA, approx. 15 miles from Boston downtown. It came out little difficult to drive to Boston for the first time. We got lost but luckily we found somebody who helped us getting back to the right way. By the time we were in Boston, we were habituated with lotta traffic and continuous horn sound ringing your ears. First day we visited Boston downtown staring with Boston Commons. This garden is claimed to be the oldest public garden across USA. Nice walk-around observing different people from different culture. We hardly got to see any black people and Chinese were the most eye-catching in crowd.
Our plan was to wander about couple of miles on freedom trail, but it was still chilly in May hence could not go far with our idea and hey, parking also turned out to be very expensive. In a private parking, we ended up paying $20/hr for parking. So I would recommend using public transport. Our next stop was Charles River Esplanade, from crowded downtown to a peaceful place. Next we aimed for Carson beach, claimed to be the nicest one in South Boston. We got lost, after hunting for half an hour we settled ourselves in Olive Garden (An Italian Restaurant we always love) and this is how our very first day ended.
Next day weather and luck were favoring to us. Though we did not have proper directions, without getting lost we reached Cambridge. One among the top most universities namely Harvard and MIT, especially for business management are located here. You will get to see students across the globe, small eateries, lot of public gardens, crowded street, roads always jammed and small but expensive shops. After visiting university campus and Harvard art museums, we decided to go for Indian lunch. It was Indian food in buffet style, cooked by Indian and served by Americans!!
And finally is the evening we had waited long, yes, trip on Harbor cruise. We chose sunset time and it was an amazing sight, you get to see entire Boston downtown. Nice romantic music, splendid glory of Sun, bottle of chilled Beer..what else you need? 90 minutes passed so fast and most of the time we spent in taking photographs. Cruise was quite small with capacity of 25 people with sitting arrangement on deck and upstairs as well. It was fun to be upstairs, but as it was quite cold and windy, we ended up spending majority time on deck, roof covered and sides open. Once the trip was over, our worries started as we had parked the car in residential area, which is wrong as per law, but luckily we found everything OK. We were quite hungry and we decided to go for Mexican Restaurant near our hotel namely ‘On The Border Mexican Grill’.
Most of the major attractions have been covered and we do not have anything else on plate other than duct tour for the last and third day. We were little confused about third day plan and thanks to internet access in hotel, we found a beautiful place called ‘Cape Cod’ 100 miles from Boston. Duck Tour was something you should not miss at all. It was always difficult to get the tickets, but good that we already booked in advance. In a small duck shaped bus you will visit entire Boston and the same will go Charles River. Wonderful experience to see Boston on one end and Harvard on other with funny and lively narration of guide cum driver. So now the time is to say good-bye to Boston and head towards Cape Cod. It is farthest end of Boston covered by sea on three sides. They also offer ferry services from beaches like Falmouth and Haynes to Martha’s Vineyard. But as we had already been on harbor cruise, we decided not to go for ferry and spend time at beach. Our destination was Chatham, the farthest point in entire cap cod. And I must say vowww, mesmerizing hues of blue and white sand like silk, the most beautiful beach I have ever been. Though temperature was high, water was quite cold. Hardly any visitors and huge place to walk on beach just appealed us. We realized that world is much more beautiful beyond our thinking!!
