So, the first leg of my around the world travels have nearly come to an end and what a great start it was! After spending a very nice (albeit very cold) first day in Boston, I then jumped on a coach and headed off to Hanover to meet up with Edie at Dartmouth where I spent a truly lovely few days!
As I was expecting it was equally as cold in Hanover (but this time I had the advantage of access to a second wardrobe and therefore more appropriate footwear in the form of thick socks and walking boots!) but I wasn't going to let this stand in my way. After a quick arrival coffee we headed to Edie's apartment where I was expecting to be shown my comfy little space on Edie's floor...oh how wrong I was! As luck would have it one of her flatmates had only just moved to another place on campus and so there was a spare room, which I had all to myself, complete with bed and desk and a wardrobe (should I have felt the need to unpack...which I didn't...far too much like hard work!)
On my first night in Hanover Edie took me out for a lovely dinner and introduced me to a load of her friends...all of whom greeted me with the line "Oh, you're Edie's friend from London, I've heard so much about you!"...instant pressure! But they were all great and really easy going people...and what was meant to be a quick dinner and an early night took us through nearly till midnight...good thing I managed to kick jetlag's ass on my first night!
The beginning of the second day was mostly spent in a lovely cafe on campus called Dirt Cowboy, which kinda turned out to be my second home while I was in Hanover when Edie had classes or meetings to go to. That evening after a very chilled day we went to see a Spike Lee film on campus called 'She's Gotta Have It' and then headed back to Edie's apartment for an early night.
Day three was a really lovely one. After coffee and breakfast in Dirt Cowboy Edie and I headed to the art gallery to go and see an installation performed by Tibetan monks and then had a wander around the exhibition that accompanied it. In the afternoon we went on a walk around Hanover which was really beautiful in all the snow. My highlight probably being the circuit around the frozen pond where there were a load of people playing ice-hockey...so American! That evening a big group of us made dinner in Edie's apartment and then headed into town for some drinks with a group of her politically active type friends...much intense discussion involved in these drinks...it was great!
On Saturday morning Edie and I took the bus back into Boston and headed into Cambridge which is where Harvard University is. After a walk around the campus and the surrounding town we headed to Edie's grandparents house which is where we were spending the night. That evening her grandmother took us out for dinner to a lovely French restaurant and then it was back to her house for another, much needed, early night!
Today I am back in the centre of Boston and will soon be heading out for a final walk around Boston before I have to be up bright and early tomorrow morning for my 8.22 flight to San Francisco! I am supremely excited about this (not least because it is about 20 degrees warmer there), but I still can't quite get my head around the fact that my flight time from Boston to San Fran is almost the same as London to Boston...this seems very odd in my head!
Anyway, for now I will sign-off, this being my last day in Boston I want to make the most of it, even if it is freezing...literally! Until next time....
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