Back Bay

Today's photos
We set off this morning at 10 again and headed down to Target superstore via the Green Line, I could spend all day in here, they have everything you could ever want, then on to Fenway Park and the Red Sox baseball team store. Most things are overpriced here, but it's good to look at the stuff and I got a massive carrier bag for a pen!

We had planned on going in the pub across from the ballpark, but napkins on the tables tend to put me off, far too upmarket for us, we are only used to places that have the seats screwed to the floor and you don't sit near the window in case a drive-by shooting happens.

Now it was around midday and only a short walk from here is Popeye's Chicken which, when done right is awesome and at $14 it was a good feed. Then back onto the Green Line one stop to Boston Public Library and the Prudential shopping mall which has a Microsoft store and I do like my tech so I was like a kid in a candy shop looking at all the cool stuff that's way out of my price range. We had planned on going up the Skywalk tower, but at $20 each and what was now a cloudy day and starting to rain so decided it probably wasn't the day for it today, but it's not far to come back to but at only 57 floors up it's a bit on the pricey side.

After swift scoot round there we walked down to the Charles River and that's when it rained. It was forecast, but there's no point in taking a coat when it's so warm and humid so plodded on along the taking shelter when it got heavy at times.

The plan now when we ended up back at the common was to get the subway one stop but it was much better just walk through the common than down a street to The Tam Bar as there is no elevator at the Bolyston stop.

I like The Tam, it's not a poncey pub, it's what you expect a US bar to be so had a

couple in there and admired the way people had spent time colouring in the beer mats, they then put on the wall. Some had spent a lot of time on these using glue and glitter, I wonder if they took them home and did it there or in the pub?

It's only a short walk from there to Jimmy John's for a couple of subs then back to the hotel. Today was a lot of walking, but it had been a good day.