Walking in Boston

This beautiful church is on the opposite corner of Copley Square to Trinity Church - we will visit another time as did not have time to go in.

Instead we visited the Boston Public Library - still very much in use as such - which is on the same square.

We loved the barrel-ceilinged Great Hall, lined with books and with two symmetrical lines of tables with perfectly aligned reading lamps.

Elsewhere in the building there were important frescoes and very elaborate and solid marble staircases.

We also liked the Italianate cloistered courtyard within the Library.

After visiting Copley Square we retreated to a restaurant next to the Quincy Market for a late lunch/early dinner - somewhat footsore and weary.  We have been wearing step counters and our tally of 12,000+ steps for the day was about what our legs felt that they had done!

This morning while David went to meetings I set off along the path beside the Charles River in the company of many joggers, cyclists and a few other walkers.  There were some very fancy boats moored near MIT as well as many bobbing sailing dinghies with young sailors under instruction.

I decided to cross the Harvard Bridge and walk back along the other side.

The bridge, which is long, was decorated with knitted and crocheted items - a kind of guerrilla knitting I thought - it was conceived as the 'Joining Project' to link the two parts of the city.

If you still have one if these from the 70's then this could be just the place for it.

The walk on the opposite side of the river was pleasantly shaded with a narrow waterway running alongside the river, separated by a long spit of grass and trees, in use as a park.

I will write some more about Boston tomorrow as it will probably be more interesting than writing about the Blood Drive that I am due to do at Reston Library!