Cambridge and Boston

How to get from Cambridge to Boston? – Let’s try it with hitchhiking, and after five minutes, a nice Indian guy gives me a ride. Interesting detail: He writes his thesis at MIT and is originally from IIT Madras, India. He dropps me at MIT, where I’m taking a look and continue hitchhiking over the frozen river to Boston. I could have walked over the bridge of course, but it’s simply too cold.

Boston across the river

In a restaurant called “legal sea food”, I go inside and ask an idle employee about illegal seafood for fun, we have a nice discussion and he recommends their special offer today: 6 oysters for 6 bucks until 6, it’s have past 5 so I go for it. Oysters for the first time in my life. – Pretty good!

Legal Sea Foods

6 Oysters for 6 $

After having been up on the high rise, to over look the city from above, …

Boston from above

… I discover unlocked phones for sale at at a telephone company’s shop. But I wonder, how they know about “Swisscom”, the Swiss telephone company.

"All phones are unlocked ..."

There are a lot of nice, alternative shops in Boston, quite unlike what I have seen in the biggest cities of Canada so far. Also a nice detail: prices are primarily announced per weight and not the prize of a pack. Here an example for a quarter of a gallon (=3.78 ℓ /4).

Milk price

After a cold walk home, an excellent dinner and a short night I go to discover Cambridge. In the morning. Most fasinating was the Glass flowers in the Harvard Botanical Museum. Then I get a free bus ride to Boston, since the busdriver didn’t care about the fares: “It’s okay”. (cf. Ottawa, August 2009: «Ici, les gens ne sont pas correctes.» ;-))