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One of the best things about Boston is that it is both relatively small and very well layed out.  Tagged "the walking city," this is indeed a city that can easily be walked, especially the areas around Fanheil Hall, Beacon and Newberry Streets, and the North End.  But supposing you want to get from one area to the other without walking, supposing it's raining and unlovely for walking, supposing all ...

Boston's cultural and social contributions are wide ranging and numerous, and although not a usual tourist destination, the Boston's Holocaust memorial is well worth the visit to anyone interested in history or art.  It is heart-wrenching, one of the more emotionally charged memorials I've seen (and I've been to D. C. several times, walked the National Mall).  So this is not the ideal "date" place to visit, but it is memorable ...

94 years strong, the Franklin Park Zoo offers something new each time I visit.  Located in Boston's historic Franklin Park, the 72-acre attraction entertains the child in everyone. 

Greeted by the towering black iron gates, once inside this majestic park your curiosity of what lies within beckons your call.  For the smallest of visitors the park acclimates the tots by introducing them slowly to the animals by offering a farm petting zoo. 

Be sure to fuel your ...

I've always been a girly girl. You know us, we wore the shiny patent leather shoes and refused to get them or our clothes dirty. Then as we got older, we started scouring Cosmo for fashion and make-up tips, and we had a thing for mirrors, shiny lip gloss, and combs (those big, fat one's with the long handle that we'd stick in our Gloria Vanderbilt jeans back pocket). Who ...

Off the cuff fun - found in the most unusual and unsuspecting places ~

Allow me share with you one of what will become many;  Off the beaten path, around the corner and adventurous places in Boston! 

While attending a weekend conference focused on Women, Action and the Media located within MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, I found a site not likely to be listed on any tourist map.  

Begin your journey by parking in the always ...

Starting on March 26, they're back. The Ducks are coming back! Some say it seems like too much of a "touristy" thing to do. But even the residents of Boston love Boston Duck Tours. I have been on the tour 5 times in 3 years, and would do it again in a heartbeat; every time I have a visitor, I try to ...

So you’ve had enough cold and wintry weather and want to celebrate Valentine’s Day somewhere lush and warm—a place where palm trees grow alongside lemon trees, orchids and tropical ferns. Better yet, without leaving town?

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is your ticket. This splendid museum modeled on a Venetian Palace right in the middle of Boston’s ...

For that special Valentine's Day Celebration, Boston hotels, restaurants and even Trolley Tours have come up with some super indulgent chocolate menus and tasting events.

Among the best is the ever-popular Dessert Table at Aujourd'hui, the elegant dining room at the Five Diamond-rated Four Seasons Hotel overlooking the Public Garden on Boylston Street.

This upscale French-style restaurant with mahogany bar and drawing room grandeur has long featured the Dessert Table, which après ...

It’s February in Boston; it’s wintry, yet invigorating. You’re in the mood for ice skating.

Where to go?

Boston has several prime outdoor ice skating locations. The most picturesque, as well as centrally located, is The Frog Pond on Boston Common. Within view of historic Beacon Hill townhouses ‘mid an open, tree-lined park, with the sound of blades skimming over ...

One of the most powerful cultural attractions in Boston is the world-famous Boston Symphony Orchestra. A must-see for classical music lovers, the Symphony’s city concert season begins in early October and continues through early May, bringing great conductors and soloists to the stage in unforgettable performances.

Organized in 1881, the “BSO,” under the musical direction of conductor James Levine, is housed in Boston’s acclaimed Symphony Hall, regarded as one of the three greatest concert halls in the world--the triumph of turn-of-the-century symphony organizers led by financier, Henry Lee Higginson, and architect, Charles Follen McKim.

Completed in 1900, Boston’s “Temple of Music” is an architectural masterpiece, and though its exterior is more austere than the initial design, the hall itself is a jewel box of acoustical and aesthetic perfection.

Despite the exterior ornamentation called for in the original blueprint, Bostonians skipped the frills and stuck with a plain and simple, though august, exterior--the kind of quintessential Yankee preference that reminded architectural writer Robert Campbell of “those Boston ladies who hid their new gowns from Paris in the closet for a year, so they wouldn’t look too fashionable.”

Today, Symphony Hall boasts some of the best acoustics in the world and hosts the cream of legendary world-class musicians, conductors and classical performances of all kinds.