May 19 2012, Boston

The final whole day of our holiday has arrived! Using the hop-on/hop-off tour bus as our taxi service, we went first to the Museum of Fine Art, which is just the other side of Fenway Park from the baseball stadium. We joined the bus at the nearest stop to our hotel, which just happens to be outside the famous Cheers pub on Boston Common.

The Cheers pub on Boston Common, algthough it loks nothing like the TV set once you get inside.

Our tour bus, which has just dropped us off at Fenway Park Stadium for the short walk across the park to the MFA.

The museum has some interesting stuff, especially relating to the fathers of the American revolution, but strangely we couldn't find a portrait of John Adams (thinking back to John Adams Way in Boston, Lincolnshire) which Jenny was most put out about! The special exhibition they have there at the moment displays the prints of Alex Katz, an artist I hadn't really beeen aware of before, but we both enjoyed the show.

After a bit more touring round on the bus, we joined the Charles River Cruise, which was included with our bus ticket and spent an hour drifting up to Harvard Bost Club and back.

These girls on the Harvard Bridge tried to persuade me to disembark and join them, but the rotten captain wouldn't stop the boat!

A final view of the Boston skyline before we leave, with Beacon Hill in the foreground.

By the way, we had an enjoyable supper yesterday evening in a French restaurant called The Hungry I, again just a block away from our hotel. As a matter of interest, this is our hotel...

Our room is behind the left hand two windows on the second floor.

Stand by for tomorrow's post - the finale!

Jen's bit: Oh well, that's it. Jx