Boat trip...

Hi everyone!!!

Last wednesday we went for a boat trip to Boston Harbour with professor Bruce Berman. I had a great time as the weather was perfect...I was aware of Boston's weather before coming here but for the moment it is nearly better than in Spain!!

During the Trip, professor Bruce was telling us about Boston's Harbour History and also about its 34 islands. I have to say is one of the cleanest harbour I have ever seen. I remember also all that was explained about Boston's Big Dig, I found it really interesting because I did a case study about this project in Spain with professor Warburton...it was such a failure!!! That makes me remember that there was an island that we saw during the trip that was quite taller than the others, that was because they use to throw there all the sand the got from the Big Dig. I think that island was Spectacle Island...but I am not completly sure!!

Getting to Quincy Bay, there were some houses just near the sea that were build by the goverment and given at a low cost to the poorest part of the population of the city. That wasn't a good decision as they were quite away from the city so all that people living there didn't have the way to go to the city center. I also found interesting that coming back, Mr.Berman told us about an island that had an hospital where the movie "Shutter Island" was filmed...I watched that film in the plane coming to Boston, it was great!!

After the boat trip we went for a walk through the financial district, where we saw quincy market, the city hall and other important buildings. After that, my friend Sameer (the one in the photo below) and two italian friends went to have lunch near Quincy market.

I hope you liked my post although is not one of the biggest....by the way, I am one of the 10% that prefers to live not near the sea!!

See you all next week,

JAIME