Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 06:55 19 Mar 2024
- Potholes leave nations' roads at 'breaking point'
- The US Navy's relentless battle against Houthi attacks
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]
 tomorrow - WWRUG AGM
23/03/24 - Trains restart - Minehead
02/06/24 - Summer Timetable starts
17/08/24 - Bus to Imber

No 'On This Day' events reported for 19th Mar

Train RunningCancelled
06:30 London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa
07:04 Bath Spa to Filton Abbey Wood
07:45 Filton Abbey Wood to Bristol Temple Meads
08:59 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington
Short Run
05:47 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington
Delayed
06:04 Basingstoke to Reading
06:40 Reading to Basingstoke
PollsOpen and recent polls
Open to 25/03 16:00 Easter Escape - to where?
Closed 2024-03-16 Should our rail network go cashless
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple MeadsBath SpaChippenhamSwindonDidcot ParkwayReadingLondon PaddingtonMelksham
Exeter St DavidsTauntonWestburyTrowbridgeBristol ParkwayCardiff CentralOxfordCheltenham SpaBirmingham New Street
March 19, 2024, 06:58:20 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[88] Where would you recommend for an Easter Escape?
[77] More travels ... more looking at how others do it ...
[74] M25 motorway issue: a most illuminating Twitter thread.
[62] Briefing on forthcoming changes - from GWR on 14.3.2024
[56] A daily picture from my recent travels
[40] Europeran Rail Timetable
 
News: A forum for passengers ... with input from rail professionals welcomed too
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: Travelogue observations - 15th September 2019 - making little of a city  (Read 2403 times)
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40646



View Profile WWW Email
« on: September 15, 2019, 19:09:33 »

Yesterday, we visited Boston.

Arriving into the city, we passed under the flight path of Logan airport to berth at the "Black Falcon Cruise Terminal".





It feels ironic that entry into Canada was no more that filling a form, but entry into the USA, "the land of the free", requires an ESTA application before travelling, an I94 form filled in on the ship, and a face to face meeting with an immigration officer.  Some 14 of these latter came on board and sat in Carmen's, and all 1,800 plus passengers visited them over a three hour period to be talked to, and have passports stamped.  Ship's announcements warned us that they are people there doing a job and not to make jokes with them ... good advise based on what I have in the past observed to be a pretty dour bunch.  They loosen up slightly when they see Lisa's USA passport alongside my "alien" one.

The cruise terminal is only a couple of miles from the city centre, but set off on dockyard isthmus that left us requiring transfer buses rather than being into the metro or bus network.





What a good example we set of how not to prepare for a city visit ... and we ended up near where the bus had dropped us off, wandering around Boston's equivalent of Covent Garden.  Performers,  souvenirs for sale that you would really wonder why you had bought them later, and eateries - both stalls from which you could eat in the open or communal areas, and overpriced restaurants.  As a one-off we allowed ourselves to be drawn in to one of the bar / restaurants - an admittedly beautiful bowl of clam chowder, a reuben sandwich, an oversized ceasar salad and ices teas ... leading to an oversized bill!

I'll share some pics ...













As a public transport forum, I'm going to offer you a single picture of the local transit bus in Boston.  Could be just about any city along this coastline - single decker, front entrance to pay the driver, accessible and with that cycle rack on the front.

Traffic downtown Boston was heavy - perhaps fairly typical big city stuff - with parking advertised at $30 per day.  That latter didn't seem to have put people off driving - but I guess there's a need to bring in an awful lot of people per acre with all the sky scrapers.



Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules (email link to report). Forum hosted by Well House Consultants

Jump to top of pageJump to Forum Home Page