With less than a week to go before I leave for Barcelona for four intensive weeks of school, I thought I'd spend one last weekend having some fun with an old friend from my days in NYC. So, what did we do, you ask? Camilla and I spent two nights in an old Boston jail. Seriously. The Liberty Hotel is a refurbished, luxury hotel that used to be a prison back in the day.
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| One of the bars had posters of celebrities' mug shots... |
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| Fortunately, Camilla was on the right side of the law!! |
The weather was sunny....but, oh so COLD! Is it really almost April? We had to wear our warmest, puffiest coats with our hoods up a lot of the time just to bear the brunt of the chilly wind. But thankfully the sun was warm and we made a few pit stops along the way...first to enjoy a coffee and then a brew ...
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| Keeping warm! |
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| Blue Moon and sliders...a great excuse to get out of the cold... |
We had a great time retracing the lives and deaths of the residents of colonial Boston, like Paul Revere on his famous "Midnight Ride"... and those buried long ago ...
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| Paul Revere |
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| The Burial Grounds at Kings Chapel |
Before Ben ran off to Philadelphia, our city of Brotherly Love, and became the prolific inventor, author, scientist, statesman, politician and diplomat we all know and admire, he spent the first 17 years of his life in Boston where he was an apprentice to his brother, James, who taught him the print trade ...
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| Benjamin Franklin-Old City Hall |
