Cradle of the American revaluation

I went on a bus trip around Boston today, firstly we went over to Harvard and walked around that famous university. It must be said it looks a little different from good old VUW, but at over $50k per year you would hope for a nice campus. This city has over 40 universities, ranging from the world famous like Harvard and MIT to Dunkin Donut U (I am not making that up) so you do look different at the socially awkward people walking the streets.

We then went out to Lexicon and Concord (although they really pronounce that so that it wasn’t until I saw a sign I didn’t know which town we were going to). This is where the first couple of battles of the American revolution happened, where some enemy combatants (sorry patriot minutemen) took on the army of the world super-power. While this day they didn’t win this lead to the super-power leaving a few years latter. This created the freedoms that Americans take for granted (I am not sure what problem they have with the current English democracy but they are completely certain that their life is better because of the revolution).. Anyway this is a very nice part of the county and it was good chance to go out and see the nature of this part of the world.

I also had a boat trip around the Boston harbor, it is interesting that with it’s round harbor and the city that is largely reclaimed land at the relatively low intensity it is a lot more like Wellington so yip that is a good thing