Anybody know anything about Boston?!1 Going there in a couple of weeks.

I'll do the JFK Library, Harvard, ------------DURING THE DAY.


4 or 5 P.M., will do Happy Hour somewhere.


7 days.

I'd walk the Freedom Trail. But then, I find history fascinating. And it takes you through some interesting parts of the city--the North End, Downtown Crossing, etc. Must have Italian in the North End at some point. Lots of good eateries there.

:toast: hit some bars....there are just too many around here, you know!

the corner from the Ritz is great (I was there twenty years ago). My brother's told me there is also an old fashioned public steak house where a bar maid dressed in period costume will yell at you as she delivers your food. The Italian section is great too. Love Boston.

Okay, I kid. What do you like to do? You probably know that Harvard has about a billion museums. MIT has a Gehry building if you're into architecture and has a pretty neat museum reflecting the tech aspect of the school. In Boston, the Isabel Stewart Gardner and MFA are good old stodgy choices.

Duck tours are worth it for a n00b.

Chinatown has some good dim sum houses.

The North End has excellent Italian food as long as you avoid the spots on Hanover St. Do go to Hanover St for cannoli.

Take a ride out to the Harbor Islands park.

Drive up to the coastal North Shore towns or Cape Ann for seafood and rocky coast or beaches. Wingersheak and Crane's are great beaches on the North Shore. Closer to Boston, Revere Beach is beautiful these days and you can have clams or roast beef at Kelly's.

Drive south to Cape Cod - lots of nice towns, nice beaches there.

I could go on -- I'd still live there if I had the choice.

I mean, it's bad enough to have Michael Sweet from Stryper sing for them, but then on top of that, to hire some karaoke singer from a MySpace page??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwu_HagnHgo

oysters in/near Fanieul Hall were lovely... not sure the exact locale but they were oh, so sweet... perhaps the Union Oyster House?

The Urban Spoon can be a useful resource - here's the link:
http://www.urbanspoon.com/n/4/316/Boston/Faneuil-Hall-restaurants

(edited to add) Link for the Aquarium:
http://www.neaq.org/index.php

Enjoy! : )

Boston ain't my kind if town.

Otherwise it's a great place. Living here for the past two years has been a really cool experience. You should just walk around town and see what you find. It's easy and there's lots of cool stuff to stumble across.

JFK Library (Red Line to JFK/UMass)

JFK birthplace (Green Line to Coolidge Corner); Michael Dukakis lives nearby, so you might run into him on the trolley!

Adams National Historic Site (Red Line to Quincy-Adams) in Quincy. Home of two presidents. Lurch doesn't live there anymore, unfortunately.

Salem, Mass (commuter rail Newpuryport line); a bit hokey, but fun. The Peabody Essex Museum can take care of your Serious Stuff, and there are lots of interesting shops around the architecturally neat downtown.

Museum of Science (Green Line to Science Park).

Museum of Fine Arts (Green Line to Museum); world class collection, especially French Impressionists and ancient Egyptian.

If you have access to a car, go to Concord. Stop at the North Bridge, part of Minute Man National Historic Park and site of the Revolutionary War battle. Then head over to Author's Ridge at the cemetery, where Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne are slumbering.

Thai Basil. It's a good, inexpensive restaurant on Newbury St., a place where "inexpensive" isn't usually part of the discussion. Great phuket noodles. Makes for a nice pit stop if you're browsing the shops in the neighborhood.

Any local Italian bakery in the North End, Somerville, Cambridge. Cannollis are one of God's greatest gifts to humankind.

Canobie Lake Park. An amusement park that combines some modern rides with an intimate, old-time charm. It's about half an hour north of downtown Boston in Salem, New Hampshire.

Do lots of walking around - it's a great walking city. The textile mill museum in Lowell (IIRC) is cool, as is the whaling museum in New Bedford.

We took my wife's parents and grandparents there a few years ago. It was a fascinating mix of science and history.

The only driving rule I could discern when I was there is that the biggest vehicle ALWAYS has the right of way.

great walking city though