Saturday 30 August

We seem to wake up ahead of the alarm when we have a chance to sleep in. Today was no exception.

Three views over the sleeping city of Boston in the early morning light

 

After a relatively early breakfast, with almost no-one out and about except us, we repacked our bags for the flight to Toronto.

Trevor went off for a walk while I finished some blogging.

Dumping our bags we headed off for our last walk through bits of Boston.

The fire station nearest the Prudential Centre was built in the days of horse drawn fire trucks. It has remained unaltered. As a result, normal fire trucks cannot get through the arched entrance so special, smaller, fire engines are used.

And just along the street is the building that used to house the police. This is now an eatery.

Our objective was the fens and we seemed to arrive there in no time at all. We set off in a clockwise direction and were suitably entertained by aquatic birds, squirrels, walkers and a multitude of joggers/runners.

Just before completing our circuit of the fens we came across a rose garden which was open to the public.

On the way back to the Pru we visited the Christian Scientists plaza. This is a huge complex.

Trevor taking a photo of a couple in front of the Christian Scientists Church

Trevor decided that he wanted to test the Boston Clam Chowder for lunch. This was served in a bread bowl.

We were being collected to go to the airport at 3;15. The early afternoon dragged. Finally we were picked up and dropped at the airport.

Finding the correct check in area proved a bit of a challenge as we were ticketed as flying with United  however it was code shared with Canada Airline, who were really operating the flight. We finally arrived at the correct check in area.

Next problem. Trrevor often has trouble getting his passport to scan. This time his was fine. Mine turned out to be a problem. Then we didn't get any luggage labels. We did eventually get this sorted out and headed for immigration which went smoothly.

Airport screening came next. Between taking off shoes and some other minor hassles I put my backpack on the conveyor belt without taking my laptop out. Oops! That did get sorted out and went through cleanly on the second go through. In the meantime, the scanner found Trevor's missing bottle of water which was tucked in the bottom of his bag. We did manage to finally clear the various formalities and evetually got on the plane and headed for Toronto.

By the time we arrived at our hotel, the Eaton Chelsea, it was after 8 and we were both tired and hungry. The foyer was crowded with people and it took ages to get to the counter to check in.