The day in Boston

Boston!

The day starts with a bagel and American coffee and hot chocolate.

One drink tastes good, the other doesn't. Guess for yourself which drink goes with which!

Then the city tour of Boston starts with 'Superducktours'. 'Duck' is the American nickname for an amphibious vehicle. They first take you through downtown Boston and then drive down a ramp into the harbor.

A lot of fun! The driver/captain and the guide were about 368 years old, but very funny. The guide could even speak German because he had a girlfriend in the Lüneburg Heath shortly after World War I. But it could also be that his German was not that good and I misunderstood something there...

After we returned dry from the city tour, we visited the USS Cassin Young and the USS Constitution. The latter is as sacred for Americans as Franz Beckenbauer is for us Germans. To get on the ship, you have to show your ID, bags are searched, and you have to go through a metal detector! I had forgotten to take off my Leatherman before passing the detector. When they discovered it, I was tasered and beaten by six guards with batons! No, just kidding! They consulted and ultimately decided that a multitool is not dangerous for an 80-meter long wooden sailing boat. Lucky me...

After the visit, where there was nothing to see (the wooden boat is currently being renovated and there is nothing on the deck), we took the ferry to downtown and did the usual sightseeing. We ate at a restaurant where you get funny hats if you eat without accidents.

Nicole then delighted us with shopping and found something at GAP.

We walked back to the hotel to tire out the little one.

It worked!