The city of Boston offers a great destination for a city break on the East Coast of the USA. Whether you are travelling alone, with friends, as part of a couple or a family you will be sure to find attractions and entertainment to fill your days and nights during your stay.
Family fun in Boston
Beantown, as it is known locally after the traditional local dish of Boston Baked Beans, is a great choice for family holidays offering a great selection of distractions and amusements that kids will enjoy. Popular choices include:

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Boston is one of America’s cultural gems, often being referred to as ‘The Athens of America’ and ‘The Cradle of Liberty’. Whilst Boston is only a medium sized city, it still manages to live up to the high expectations of tourists. And with four centuries of history to explore, Boston offers both era’s gone by and present modernity for a fantastic trip away.
1. The Freedom Trail
If you want to explore many of Boston’s amazing sights in one day, then taking the 2.5mile Freedom Trail is ideal. You can take an …

An urban marketplace like no other, Faneuil Hall marketplace is sure to delight all who stop by for a visit. Boston’s central meeting place since the founding of the nation, Faneuil Hall Marketplace combines America’s past and present in a way few other places can. Meeting hall, shops, restaurants and much more are in store for the whole family!
Originally opened as Faneuil Hall, this first building was a gift to the city of Boston by one of the town’s wealthiest men at the time, Peter Faneuil, in 1724. It has …

Called by many Boston’s hidden jem, a day in Roslindale Village is one nobody will forget easily. Located to the south of Boston’s downtown, this unique village is not easy to find unless you know where you’re going. And once you get there, you might not want to leave!
Roslindale Village takes you back in time with its busy streets in that old-fashioned triangle layout. However, this unique Boston neighborhood is as alive as ever with its wide variety of shops, boutiques, restaurants, bakeries and specialty stores. It also has a …

The oldest warship still afloat in the United States, and the world, the USS Constitution has been around since 1797. It is one of the six ships that President George Washington ordered built to protect the budding nation’s coast and maritime interests. The USS Constitution once patrolled the coasts of the West Indies and Brazil and also served during the War of 1812, which is when it earned the nickname of “Old Ironsides” as its crew told of how the British Frigate HMS Guerriere’s cannonballs bounced of the Constitution’s thick …

Perhaps one of Boston’s greatest and oldest treasures, Public Garden is a must-see when visiting Bean Town. Created in 1837, it is America’s first botanical garden. Its showy floral arrangements and cheerful color combinations have made it one of Boston’s top tourist attractions, even though in its early days it had quite a few critics, who complained that the blend of colors was in bad taste.
Founded during the reign of Victorian culture, the Public Garden was the first park to use greenhouse-grown plants, a new technique back then. These plants …

Many people would not count Boston in their list of popular tourist destinations; however, the city has much to offer to the most discerning of travelers. As a mater of fact, Boston boasts of a variety of tours that can make your trip to the city memorable time after time.
However, Boston being the city that it is, the weather will play a major role in the tours that you finally get to take. So, always consider the time of the year before planning a trip to the city.
Whale watching tour: …

It has certainly been a long time!  My apologies for that – a lot has changed recently.  I actually want to take the blog in a bit of a different direction, but not quite yet.  I still have more planning to do.

That being said, it’s October.  Which means Halloween.  The greatest time of the year.  Halloween is like Christmas to me.  It’s a time to scare yourself silly, eat lots of candy, and enjoy autumn.  Living in Massachusetts, the haunted houses, museums, events, rainy cool evenings, everything that makes Halloween …

Things to Do — By Mike Virgintino on October 2, 2010 at 11:54 am

About 10 miles outside of Boston is the picturesque and historic town of Lexington. Along with nearby Concord, the roads and adjoining fields were the scene of “the shot heard round the world” that was the opening salvo of the American Revolution.
While some more modern housing can be found along these roads, much of …