On your upcoming trip to Boston, Massachusetts, one of the oldest cities in America, you need some ideas about how things are going to go. This article is meant to give you some tips about what to do and where to go while you’re touring this beautiful, old city. On your first day in the area, try seeing Cambridge-the suburb of Boston where Harvard University is located. You can take a tour of Harvard’s campus or go see one of the homes of George Washington or Longfellow (which happens to be the same home”you can find it on “Tory Row”). And just a step away from Cambridge is Boston Proper with many historical sites to offer. You could see Plymouth Rock nearby and also Lexington is rather close. If you need a refresher about the history of these sites you’re about to see, spend some time in the National Heritage Museum. You can see also the stomping grounds of many of America’s most important literary figures, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. And Emerson’s emissary, Thoreau, whose Walden Pond is a stone’s throw away. A good way to see the sites of the city is to walk the Freedom Trail around the city, which is a self-guided walking tour through many of the colonial sites in the city.
To delight in a purely Bostonian tradition, try going to a local bowling alley to bowl-that is, candlepin bowl. Two centuries ago the game was invented and is still played today. Although similar to the perhaps more traditional game of ten-pin bowling, the pins are smaller in Candlepin bowling. The balls are much smaller, weighing under three pounds. There are several places that you can go in Boston to play this game-if you’re a good bowler, or even if you’re not, this might be a fun change for you.
