MONDAY 28th MAY 2007
Memorial Day.
Also free museum day. There are plenty of museums in and around Boston so which would it be? Museum of Science?University Collections? Boston Tea Party Ship? Museum of Fine Art?
Museum of Fine Art it was. Unfortunately it seemed like everybody else was thinking the same thing. We travelled the globe inside the museum seeing things from China, Japan, Greece, India and America as well as musical instruments. We learnt that John Singleton Copley, yes he of Copley Square pretty much sowed up the whole portraiture market in Boston, I also got see the star of many a shark documentary 'Watson and the Shark' by Copley (not sure why it was in Boston, was it on loan?). I got to see 'The Fog Warning' by Winslow Homer another iconic picture that many know but may not know who it's by.
A further bonus was in getting to see an Edward Hopper show, i'm not sure if this is the show that I missed in London or not but tickets were reduced. I never realised that his other scenes were all painted in New England and so it was interesting to eavesdrop on other people's conversations who were more knowledgable about the areas in the paintings like Cape Elizabeth than I was.
I learnt another valuable lesson while there too, when eating in museum cafes...its not the size of the container they charge you for, its the weight! That's what you get for trying to cram as much as you can in the container. I really should have just copied S and taken a sandwich, drink and fruit. Doh!
The museum shop didn't have the postcards that I wanted isn't that always the way! Then it was a wait for the T to take us part of the way and a walk through Boston Common towards our dinner destination.
We headed to The Barking Crab for a seafood dinner. We ordered the seafood platter which was a mixture of fried seafood and contrasted that with some King crab legs and glasses of cold beer. Instead of crackers to break the shell around the legs of the crab meat you get a rock. Yep, you read that correctly a rock. Its very satisfying to get your food by smashing it with a rock!
Again it was a case of enjoying myself too much to take pictures of what I was eating but I did enjoy it very much then we walked it off a little by heading towards Quincy market and saw the Holocaust Memorial which is very effective and moving.
After another long day but a very good one we headed back.
Also free museum day. There are plenty of museums in and around Boston so which would it be? Museum of Science?University Collections? Boston Tea Party Ship? Museum of Fine Art?
Museum of Fine Art it was. Unfortunately it seemed like everybody else was thinking the same thing. We travelled the globe inside the museum seeing things from China, Japan, Greece, India and America as well as musical instruments. We learnt that John Singleton Copley, yes he of Copley Square pretty much sowed up the whole portraiture market in Boston, I also got see the star of many a shark documentary 'Watson and the Shark' by Copley (not sure why it was in Boston, was it on loan?). I got to see 'The Fog Warning' by Winslow Homer another iconic picture that many know but may not know who it's by.
A further bonus was in getting to see an Edward Hopper show, i'm not sure if this is the show that I missed in London or not but tickets were reduced. I never realised that his other scenes were all painted in New England and so it was interesting to eavesdrop on other people's conversations who were more knowledgable about the areas in the paintings like Cape Elizabeth than I was.
I learnt another valuable lesson while there too, when eating in museum cafes...its not the size of the container they charge you for, its the weight! That's what you get for trying to cram as much as you can in the container. I really should have just copied S and taken a sandwich, drink and fruit. Doh!
The museum shop didn't have the postcards that I wanted isn't that always the way! Then it was a wait for the T to take us part of the way and a walk through Boston Common towards our dinner destination.
We headed to The Barking Crab for a seafood dinner. We ordered the seafood platter which was a mixture of fried seafood and contrasted that with some King crab legs and glasses of cold beer. Instead of crackers to break the shell around the legs of the crab meat you get a rock. Yep, you read that correctly a rock. Its very satisfying to get your food by smashing it with a rock!
Again it was a case of enjoying myself too much to take pictures of what I was eating but I did enjoy it very much then we walked it off a little by heading towards Quincy market and saw the Holocaust Memorial which is very effective and moving.
After another long day but a very good one we headed back.
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1 Comments:
hmmm Hopper, really? I like him.
And rocks are much more efficient at cracking things, just be careful with your fingers. Have you ever seen otters eating crabfish? They use rocks, the smart animals ;)
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