This is our experience of visiting Boston in one day

Our time in Boston, during the road trip through the United States, began with the visit to Harvard University, after which we went directly to the center downtown from Boston, where we parked in a very central, which is to say expensive, place.

Boston It is located in a place where various rivers converge, on the seashore, with estuaries that penetrate into land, so the city is surrounded by water and bridges.

Tourist brochures tell us that, as Boston, there is no other place in the United States where you can enjoy the rich history of the revolution and of the events that led to the historical rupture of the United Kingdom.

Visit Boston in one day

The first visit took us to Boston Common and Public garden, which is the large park in the center of the city,

There we could see a monument dedicated to soldiers and sailors, and the Frog Pond, a curious bathing area with sculptures of frogs, where many children bathe and play with the water, which was very ideal on a very hot day like the one we experienced.

We also visited the Boston tourist office, where we just informed ourselves and where, as always, we searched and selected the free map that was going to serve as a guide during the visit.

In order to follow this part of the history of the United States, the route known as Freedom Trail, o Liberty Walk. It is a walking route, more than four kilometers long, marked on the ground with red brick or paint of the same color.

If you follow the Freedom Trail, you will pass through 16 historic sites, each an authentic American treasure, including churches, cemeteries, parks and even a ship.

Halfway through we stopped to eat on a terrace, a pleasant place with not very brilliant food, despite certain pretensions of the place and the waiters.

Once this historical tour is finished, after walking through streets of downtown boston, we returned to the parks and surrounded the central pond, whose banks were populated with willows.

It was the typical image of a large city pond, with rowboats and ducks, which took center stage with a group of life-size bronze sculptures of a family of ducks.

The gardens were really well maintained, with some rose gardens and people resting or reading stretched out on the grass.

Something that caught our attention in various places in Boston were the tour guides who, dressed in the style of that 1776 the revolution, they carried out their work alongside visitors to the city.

There was also a dramatic monument dedicated to the great famine that since 1845, and for five years, devastated the Irish in their country, causing the death of a million people and the emigration of another two million to American lands, especially to Boston.

Those who remained in Ireland suffered many calamities and illnesses.

On our walk through the downtown In Boston we see that the city's large skyscrapers share space with old buildings, creating an atmosphere between modern and classic.

In short, city ​​of boston It is very clean and gives the feeling of “finished”.

You see many restaurants that serve fish and seafood, as in Gloucester, or on the Pacific coast, in San Francisco, Seattle or Vancouver.

By car we headed to the area Commercial Street to visit certain apartment buildings standing that face the sea with views to the other side of the bay, and from where different ferries leave to different nearby places.

Exhausted (for a change...), we headed to the hotel to prepare our last car tour, with our beloved Potomac, Potoo. Tomorrow we begin the end of our journey (buah! buah!) heading to New York to spend the last seven days of this long and intense trip.