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I'm going to Boston for a weekend next month to check out BU and MIT. Meanwhile, I'll be trying to look at awesome and cool things.
What are cool things to do and where should I stay?
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somertimeoh
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1) Beer is next to impossible to find. Not sold anywhere but licensed places. Like having to go to the liquor store to buy beer.
2) We stayed at the Marriott in the theater district last summer and it was an awesome hotel. Attached to The Roxy (we were there to see The Faint) so if there's a show there it's pretty awesome to be able to just stumble up to your room afterward :)
3) Mass trans was awesome and made it easy to get around.
4) Can't wait to go back. I feel like I could spend weeks there and still not see all I want to see. Really fell in love with it.
Good luck, bud. If y'all move there I'm coming to visit :)
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ZHC
101 East Main Street, Downtown
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if it were baseball season I'd say Fenway for sure.
Last time I was there , the first I noticed was how crazy the road system seemed. They seem to be very very small and not on any sort of modern grid. Which was cool but confusing at first. Might be less of an issue now that I think the Big Dig is done.
Anyway you might want to make sure you have a map.:)
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Core_Models
Columbus
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can you buy carryout in bars though Somer? I know Indiana is like that, and I think Chicago too.
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honavery
Arizona
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I've only visited for a day or two, but we did stay in this awesome hotel right by MIT. The bed sheets had equations on them....(I think this is it, but not 100% since I didn't book it).
Also ate at this awesome BBQ place called Red Bones.
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somertimeoh
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Core_Models wrote >>
can you buy carryout in bars though Somer? I know Indiana is like that, and I think Chicago too.You know, I'm not sure, but probably. It was just crazy that there were like 4 colleges or universities within walking distance of our hotel and Jim and his brother had to walk pretty damn far to find beer.
Jeff, whatever y'all do, get a room high up. Boston has the coolest footprint. I guess just because it's so old. I'd never been in an old city before so I was geeking out. Unfortunate byproduct of growing up in the south :)
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HeySquare
German Village
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somertimeoh wrote >>
1) Beer is next to impossible to find. Not sold anywhere but licensed places. Like having to go to the liquor store to buy beer.I think this is funny, because liquor sales are varied by region, and it always seems to make sense to the people that live there. In the northeast and mid-atlantic, most states sell beer, wine, and hard liquor in one place... (well, OK Pennsylvania is totally wack because you have to go to the beer distributor to buy beer, and the state store for wine and spirits.) In New Jersey where I grew up, you just go to the liquor store for anything: beer, wine, vodka... if it is alcoholic, you buy it there. I never felt like it made sense to sell beer and wine at the grocery store.
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Brant
Gahanna
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The Freedom Trail. In fact, all that touristy US history stuff in Boston is really cool.
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misskitty
Columbus
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http://www.beaconinn.com/
Near by
Boston University (.3 mi / .48 km)
MIT ( 2.3 mi/ 3.7 km)
Downtown Boston (4 mi/ 6.4km)
Freedom Trail (3 mi/ 4.83 km)
Bostons North End (3 mi/ 4.83km)
Quincy Marketplace Faniel Hall (4.3 mi/ 6.9 km)Posted 2 years ago # -
The Wayfarer
Short North
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Grab brunch at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge. Seriously, best eggs benny ever.
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The Wayfarer
Short North
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And yes, the place is totally frou frou as evident by the website. It's cute if you're there with a date, but still tolerable if you go it alone. For real, it's worth it for the benedict.
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Bear
The woods
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Upstairs isn't as bad as the pink and gold paint makes it... uh... well, you'll enjoy it.
Hamersley's bistro, south end. Chicken will recalibrate your chicken scale. The rest is great too. Oleana in Cambridge, also terrific.
Some great Indian in Cambridge opposite Upstairs -- Tamarind Bay. Little known and excellent. Also a good chance to explore some cuisines you don't find around here, a good Tibetan place in Somerville, a good Nepalese one in West Roxbury. (W Roxbury is the traditional, Irish breakfast capitol of the area, btw... great Irish sausage + black and white pudding combos.) These are pretty random; there's lots of great dining depending on your taste, check Yelp, Zagat etc.
Don't miss the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, perhaps the quirkiest museum in the city for a variety of reasons and a real gem, but worth it just for the atrium, which may be the most serene, beautiful, and well-designed location in the city.
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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somertimeoh wrote >>
1) Beer is next to impossible to find. Not sold anywhere but licensed places. Like having to go to the liquor store to buy beer.It's been years since we last went to Boston, but I also thought this was extremely strange. Our friends from Boston also thought it was equally strange to see beer being sold in every corner store, gas station, and CVS in Columbus.
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L.I. to Buckeye
West side/Galloway
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Bear wrote >> Don't miss the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, perhaps the quirkiest museum in the city for a variety of reasons and a real gem, but worth it just for the atrium, which may be the most serene, beautiful, and well-designed location in the city.
Yes! That's a great place!
Definitely also check out as many of the area's colleges as you can. Many beautiful campuses there!
The Charles River is a nice place for a picnic if the weather's ok.
Just DO NOT drive there. Mass transit is definitely the way to go. The T is a great system to get around and it allows you to avoid the legendary "masshole" drivers.
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ZHC
101 East Main Street, Downtown
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L.I. to Buckeye wrote >>
Bear wrote >> Don't miss the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, perhaps the quirkiest museum in the city for a variety of reasons and a real gem, but worth it just for the atrium, which may be the most serene, beautiful, and well-designed location in the city.
Yes! That's a great place!
Definitely also check out as many of the area's colleges as you can. Many beautiful campuses there!
The Charles River is a nice place for a picnic if the weather's ok.
Just DO NOT drive there. Mass transit is definitely the way to go. The T is a great system to get around and it allows you to avoid the legendary "masshole" drivers.+1
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somertimeoh
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Masshole, ha! I still giggle every time I meet someone from Mass now. You know it's gotta be true when even the old people say it :)
Oh, and chain or not, I'd kill for some clam chowder from Legal Seafood right now. Yum!
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Bear
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Don't want to perpetuate a misperception: "Massholes" aren't ordinary citizens of the Commonwealth. They're citizens who get behind the wheel of a car and are transformed, by virtue of Boston's traffic circles, congestion, and general combat driving ethos, into combative, belligerent misanthropes. Within about five minutes of stepping out of the car, they become normal people again.
Take the T.
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swan
London
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Shop on Newbury st (its Boston's equivalent to SoHo) and I can't remember but there is a restaurant in the vicinity that has over a 1000 beers available (none on draft, womp womp). I can't recall the name but maybe someone else here can. Boston is fun fun.
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somertimeoh
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Bear, I think the point is that the misconception (or not) is that ALL drivers with Mass plates are automatically assumed to be Massholes.
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