The flight was a bumpy one; I was in the thirteenth row and the back row of the plane, so it wasn’t a big one. Once in New York, baggage was easy and I got myself to the AirTrain, a train that goes around the airport, terminating at a NYC subway station. I got there easy enough and myself onto the subway. There weren’t many people on the carriage when I got on, but that [...]

I’m sitting in Boston‘s Logan International airport right now, it is still an hour and a half until my flight departs. I got here in plenty of time though because I decided to take the subway. It was pretty easy; the hardest part was walking with my luggage to the station to begin with. The flight to New York takes about an hour, I’ll be getting there just after midday. From there, the challenge will [...]

I went for a long run in the morning up to Harvard Square and that was just about the highlight of the day. Nothing much really went right from there on out. I left the hotel at one, got some lunch on the way to the train station and then caught the subway the few stops into the city centre. With a huge day of walking ahead, as soon as I left the subway station [...]

Today was the first time I have seen rain for the entire trip. When I started out walking to Fenway the clouds looked a little threatening, but it was so sticky and humid I really wasn’t too worried if it did rain. Sure enough it started when I was halfway through the 5km walk to the ballpark. I had to rush a little in the end, but I got there in time to go on [...]

The Boston Common is one of the oldest parks in America. Up until 1830, the land was used for cattle grazing. It was also used for public hangings back in the day. British ‘red coats’ camped on the Common before the Revolution in April, 1775. It was pretty easy to get to, it is a little bit of a walk to the closest train station from the hotel, but from there it is only a [...]