The main stopping-off point is the USS Constitution, the oldest comissioned boat in the world. In order to maintain this status she has to sail a short cruise and carry out a gun drill each year. The museum alongside details the history of the naval docks there, and in particular of rope-making, the docks supplying the rope for all of the US navy for a number of years.
Boston is kind to the pedestrian tourist; you can walk everywhere and the city centre is not too big. There are plenty of historic buildings, and Quincy Market, although a bit touristy, is still worth a visit. We were lucky with the weather: the great wave of cold that is dumping the snow we're seeing on the news arrived about 12 hours after our departure.
Completely by chance, the day we were in Boston and touring the city was the day the Constitution went out for its annual jaunt. It went with an escort of tugs and some sort of Coast Guard boat with armed guards carrying machine guns, and loads of people stopped to watch her.
ReplyDeleteOh, superb, Mark.
ReplyDeleteThat is a fabulous sailing ship :-)
ReplyDeleteLucky for you that you missed the snow.