We had even less planned for today as it's time to start winding down, there will be almost 10 hours between checking out of the hotel leaving them on the plane.
It's the last day and all that we had left planned for today was a trip to Bunker Hill, where 1000's were killed at the start of the Revolutionary War with the English.
This one was of the few occasions that we caught a bus, but still had a bit of a walk up the hill to the museum and monument on the other side of the road. The museum is only small but tells the story of what happened here with a display that lights up as it explains how the battles were fought around here. This is also where you get your free tickets to climb the Bunker Hill Monument across the road.
Tickets are by timed entry and we didn't get much time to get out of the museum, across the road and up the hill to the bottom of the monument, 5 minutes wasn't really enough as it's a steep hill. It was only me who got a ticket as there was no way Jane would make it to the top, there's no lift inside just a spiral staircase of 297 steps. I thought it was 236 steps, but sadly not so, by the time I got to the top even with stopping a few times I was almost dead.
It was worth the climb though, and as it was a clear day you could see for miles. The only downside is there's not a lot of room at the top at about 12 feet by 12 with only 4 small windows to look out of so it can get a bit crowded with more than about 10 people who don't like moving from the windows even though they are only sending text messages. After about 10 or 20 minutes at the top, it was time for me and my jelly legs to walk back down and to where I had left Jane.
From there we retraced our steps, stopping at the ice cream van then round to the Maritime Park. Even I'm though into maritime history I'm glad we came here as I found another pocket watch, I've started collecting these from the cities that we visit and this is my third one in the series, they're not cheap but I like them. The other reason to come through this way was to get the ferry back rather catch the bus and 2 trains, it was worth $3.50 for the 10-minute ride across the harbour.
We had planned on going for a drink, but it's Friday afternoon and it all goes a bit manic in the pubs here so give up on that idea and got the train to Whole Foods where I had seen some lovely cooked hot sausages yesterday, sods law says that today there was none left but I did get a nice bag from there so not a wasted trip.
Then it was back on the subway and change to the Green Line. Luckily we only had to go one stop as it's always packed at this time of day, then went to MacDonald's for something to eat. Neither of us wanted to get back on the train, even for a couple stops so walked back through the common which was a much better idea.
We got to the hotel at about 6:10 which was about an hour later than I had planned.
