{UAH} BOSTON IS MORE LIKE ENGLAND

BOSTON IS MORE LIKE ENGLAND 

On the 4th day in Newyork,  I was picked up in the morning from my hotel by my brother in law/friend, Seif, and his wife, and we drove for nearly 8 hours to Ayer, one of the suburbs of Boston. 

The following day, we started touring Boston and surroundings. Boston sure is easy on the eye and has a more European feel - lots of their suburbs have English names. 

Because Boston was English and because many Boston designers followed English trends and technologies, the city has many of the same design elements of England.

The city layout is hard for a newcomer to navigate around it. The roads are kind of similar to the ones in England. None of the roads in Boston is straight, and often 5 or 6 roads intersecting at one crossing. It's quite confusing.

I was told by a Boston friend that there is a historical reason for the city's road system to be like this. Something related to the fact that the roads are due to typographical landmarks that are no longer there - the city started off as a peninsula and is mostly landfill. Many roads followed the shore line and as more land was filled (from several hills being cut down, which they also added to the winding streets) new roads would then be made to follow the "new" shore. New York also has a similar street grid as Boston in Lower Manhattan.

We first drove downtown Boston, where I was shown the Statehouse, shopping centres,  restaurants, Freedom Trail, and that cold docking area opposite a massive Italian restaurant. 

We then drove to where the Boston Tea Party happened. From the obso deck, you can see the harbour and most of South Boston and the Greenway - no one goes up here - so it's a great place to steal a kiss from your halal- sweetheart 

I didn't know much about the Boston Tea party apart from what I read in the novel Burr (Gore Vidal). It describes Aaron Burr's rise through the war and his falling out with General Washington.

We visited the site of Boston Marathon Terrorist Attacks (April 2013). There are two sites, and we took some pictures here. Coincidentally, on the same day, 29 people were killed and 60 injured in a terrorist attack in Somalia. Also, 75 people died in a terrorist attack in Iraq. But Boston got more news coverage worldwide. 

The city is pretty with Charles River running through it and sitting right next to the ocean. So you get to see water very often. And that's what I did when we passed the river to cross to Cambridge, where Harvard University and MIT are located. 

We toured lots of places, including Waltham, where most Ugandans live. 

Anyways, if you've made it to the bottom, congratulations! Sorry for the long article!

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