“This is Police Wetbike 342 in pursuit...”
Boston is a lovely place. It's like Canada has managed to infect a small section of the USA with it's goodness, sliding it's slower, more continental tentacles into the heart of this Northern city. The buildings seem lower, and even when they're higher, they seem to be more confortable with themselves. There's a food market which I swear is a kilometer long, and pretty much all of the food is good.
When we were in Boston, the US Secret Service was busy welding the manhole covers in preperation for a Democrat Party Conference, trotting around with AR-15 Assault rifles, or large dogs and mean looking pistols. Apparently Boston was the first city to electronically tag marathon runners so that there is no cheating or short-cutting. Well, unless you change your shoelaces, where the chip was stored. Obviously a city that is not alien to security.
Down in the harbour you can do the usual take tours, or look at a WWII destroyer moored there, or a much older sailing ship of Great American Significance. And have your picture taken next to a bunker of high explosives. Much more interesting, however, is the method of policing the harbour: wetbikes. First pioneered in California to catch drug-carrying speedboats, the Bostonians have borrowed the idea, and make harbour policing look fun on them.
A modest reconstruction might look like this
Then there is this crazy Pilgrim Village, were the people are all mad. All of them. And it is great fun. They wear period clothes, and attempt to speak period speak. This results in a range of accents, sometimes all in one sentence. Ask them an question, and the first half of your answer will be in a Scottish accent. It will then migrate to a softer Irish brogue, before you find out that her character is actually from London. Do do de do... Good fun though, and they are all a little dirty, like they haven't washed in a while, which adds some authenticity.
Lobster. I like lobster. Nova Scotia lobster being amazingly good. Now you're wondering where does this fit in? Well I had some amazing lobster near the Pilgrim settlement. Absolutely wild. A recipe will soon be in our nourishment section as to how...