Boston by Boat....

Hello everybody,

In this post, I will tell you about the things I learned of Boston, the histoy of New England and how the region managed to be wealthy.

First, Boston is a city with a beautiful harbour, in which you can have the best view on the city, especially on sunny days ! The harbour in composed of marinas and boats for the leasure part, but also of a commercial parts, with a lot of container from all around de world (China, ...).
The harbour is a main factor in the city's wealth, because it used to be an important ship harbour. But the wealthy of Boston didn't come from the sea.
Around the city, there is 34 islands, with houses, plants and other things which were great actors in the development of the city and are now national parks. For example, one of them is specialized in water cleaning. Boston used to be a very poluted harbour, but the city invested several bilions dollars to clean and maintain the water good, which is a very important thing.
A long time ago, there was more islands but some of them were linked to Boston, in order to extend the city (airport and castle island).

Nowadays, the wealth of Boston also come from tourism and finance. The city is becomming a big place in finance and some banks and other companies are here. These companies can use the importance of universities, which have very good reputations (Harvard, MIT, BU...)
The tourism is also a big part of Boston's devellopment. The city is quite old and cultural. The atmosphere in it is really quiet and we have the feeling that we are in a europpean city, without huge buildings, stress, etc.

To conclude, I learned on wednesday that the wealthy and the development of the city is the result of several factors, industries and uses of the goegraphy and geology of the region (e.g. Frederic Tudor). It was very interesting to see all these evolutions, the history of the harbour and with a weather like this, I can easily say that Boston is one of the most beautiful city on Earth (after Lyon of course)

See ya

Max