Greyhoundin'.

So, this week was semaine de relache from university, and we took advantage of this by going to Boston for a few days. Boston was just beautiful. The weather was freakishly warm, and bar one rainy day it was lovely. I can't adequately convey how true the cliche about New England foliage in the fall really is. The colours are like nothing you can really imagine, and I feel very lucky this natural phenomenon extends up to Quebec. But back to Boston: a divine, beautiful city, full of very friendly people and home to one of my favourite accents. So, our trip in pictures.

First up was Harvard. Fans of The Social Network will recognise the first picture as being the statue from the film. DON'T TOUCH THE STATUE'S FOOT, THE HARVARD SWINE STUDENTS WEE ON IT.

Next up was a beautiful afternoon stroll along the water of the Charles River Basin, across the Longfellow Bridge, along the other side of the Basin and back. Delightful.

 

So Wednesday was a bit of a rainy day, BUT it was all good because we had company in the form of Allie and Ryan. The lovely and beautiful Allie took us on a highly informative tour of the Freedom Trail (or the 'Liberty Trail' as Jonny insisted on calling it), before dinner in Quincy Market with Ryan.

 (below is a very, very interesting and thoughtful Holocaust memorial)

Before hopping the bridge to beautiful Charlestown, we stopped off for fuel at Mike's in Little Italy, in the form of the richest, most divine canoli this side of the Atlantic.

Thursday was Salem. Being keen on early postcolonial history, it definitely did it for me. And just to make it even more delightful, we took a boat there.

And just because they were excellent, here are two animal encounters I and Jonny had:

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