We left our comfy flat on the Upper West Side in New York, and took a train up to Fairfield in Connecticut to spend a couple of days with Eva's parents MaryEllen and Michael. The blending of the two families is going very well. Eva and Callum are getting married in Australia in October 2024.
The Hendricks house
A walk in the New England woods
And then on to Boston on the Amtrak train. Comfortable and fast. The landscape was reminiscent of southern England.
Our AirBnB in Cambridge.
We did a student-led guided tour of Harvard University.
Harvard University Hall
Statue of John Harvard
Harvard Yard
Memorial Church
Widener Library. Donated by the mother of a man who drowned in the Titanic.
Wigglesworth Hall
Lowell House
The Inn at Harvard
A welcoming committee for new freshers
A boat trip on the Charles River. The Lechmere canal
Longfellow Bridge and Boston skyline
Boston University Center for Computing & Data Sciences
Plenty graffiti
Harvard dormitory
Balloon seller on Boston Common
Roots of a Redwood Tree
Psychedelic cow
We attended a Boston Tea Party re-enactment with actors, lots of 'Huzzahs' and some throwing of tea into the harbour.
There was not a clear opportunity for me to tell the crowd that they were making a big mistake, and that the US constitution would be forever flawed as a result, as I have previously written.
Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
Boston Harbour with 'replica' tea ship.
