Sunday, September 21, 2003

Saturday 20th September 2003 - Day 7/273 - Boston, Massachucetts

Ouch! Apologies to Big Steve and Char for waking you up. Also sorry to Nathan, the hotel receptionist, who we had a chat with when we got in. He confirmed that we're staying in the gay district. It's no bother though, not that it should be.

Woke up at 10 which feels really weird coz that's about the time that Fleet will be kicking off. It's the most i've missed home so far. I know you guys are now think I'm weird and sad.

Today's laundry day. It's all stuff you've got to consider when travelling. The launderette round the corner charges $1 for 1lbs. We had 21lbs between us, but they do wash, dry and fold.

The plan today is a trip to Salem. Neither of us have hangovers, but I think that's coz we're still drunk. We made our way to Haymarket to catch the bus. After about an hour of waiting we asked someone and it turns out that buses don't come into Boston at the weekends so we had to catch the bus from Wonderland. The buses run every hour and cost $2.50. It's very slow and stops everywhere and took about an hour.

Salem is famous for it's witch trials and as a harbour. It was beautiful, just like the town in Witches of Eastwick. It's now full of museums and you can spend all day and a lot of money wandering round them all. We just took a stroll and chilled, which was really nice, as our hangovers were just starting to kick in.



We got back to the room for about 17.00 for a snooze before dinner.

In Salem there a 200 foot clipper like the one that Christopher Columbus used to circumcise the globe (private joke).

Oh yeah and Fleet got there first point of the season. 1-1 with Banbury. Come on Lads!!