My first trip abroad - Part 2

Like I said before Boston is a beautiful place that has a lot of history to talk about. During the initial few days I managed to see the places around and was interested to cover some of the cities around.

A colleague was kind enough to take us to some of the places around Boston in Massachusetts. So, we drove down to Concorde, which has a lot to talk about the American Revolution and history. On the way we stopped by for a bite to eat in Lexington. We had a thanks giving meal which had the turkey cooked in an authentic style along with the cranberry or 'chanberry' sauce (I cant stop recollecting Chandler Bing's effort to make the sauce decades before for Thanksgiving) Slurp. Slurp. After getting to hear a bit about the American revolution it was nice to stop by and take a look at the minute man statue and we heard about Paul Revere's important contribution to the revolution.

As we heard the rangers narrating the story to the tourists we were interested in taking a peek at the bunker hill where the battle of bunker hill was fought. I must be appreciated for my bravery, not for visiting the place which was once a battle field but for climbing the small hill in my 2 inch pointed heels.

We crossed Lexington, Arlington and finally reached Concorde which is again another important places in the history to remember. I always wanted to see Concorde for the architecture but I got to know a little about its significance in the revolution. The place was beautiful and a ranger narrated the incident that took place in April 19, 1775. With eyes closed one is asked to visualize the scene that took place in the 18th century and the thought of getting reminded that you are standing on a field or soil which was once a battlefield brought in some goose bumps.

It was not over with it and we thought of checking one of the oldest houses "The Old Manse house" that is still maintained carefully for the visitors to take a look at the stuff that was used then in the 18th century and its american literary associations. I wanted to take a look at Alicia Scott's house (She write little women while staying in this house) which was in the neighborhood but we settled for the Old Manse house which we thought would have some interesting things to say.

In the mid-19th-century, Transcendentalists such as Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller discussed the issues of the day here, with the Hawthorne and Ripley families.

Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia, started their married life here, and you can still see the poems they wrote to each other, etched on the Manse’s window panes. We could see the writings made out of her diamond ring on the glass panes about some of the saddest moments in her life when she had a miscarriage. Little she would have known that there are people who still visit this place where she and the descendants lived and the information still gets passed on to the future generation.

I know this was a lot of history but yes I love listening to stories and reading about history since childhood, so it definitely was a bliss to visit some of the beautiful and significant places in Massachusetts.

More to come next and it is not going to be about History this time.