{"id":5347,"date":"2012-05-29T21:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T05:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T05:09:01","slug":"memorial-day-3-hours-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/memorial-day-3-hours-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day – 3 hours in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Peter Pan 6am bus was not running so when I got there I was a tad dissapointed at having got up so early needlessly so headed back to my air mattress till 7:30am. Jesse and I took the bus together up to Boston and as the next flight wasn’t till 2:45 I had three hours to kill in Boston. I have been wanting to be a tourist in Boston for a number of years and finally yesterday was the day \ud83d\ude42 I took the subway to the Charles station and walked back over Beacon Hill to the Common and then got on the Freedom trail ending at Faneuil Hall.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\nWalking on the brick pavements in a city founded in 1630 (not that old by British standards but ancient by American!) that played a central role in US History including the Boston Tea Party. <\/p>\n

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\nI loved the red brick architecture, the beautifully maintained floral displays including many window boxes and of course the US flag displayed from many houses. <\/p>\n

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\nIn front of the ‘new’ state house built in 1798. During 1997, at a cost of more than $300,000, the dome was re-gilded, in 23k gold!<\/p>\n

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\nAt Granary burial grounds third oldest in Boston est 1660 with 2345 graves but an estimated 5000 people were buried here. Included are a few gentleman who signed the Declaration of Independence and those who were killed in the Boston Massacre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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