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The route I walked in Boston circumvented the Financial District - most of this area is created by lowering hills in the environment and fill the shores. I arrived at the South Station Busterminal, walked to Boston Common, joined the Freedom Trail tour and went back along the old harbour - now converted into an expensive living area.
01-Collector * When walking from the Radisson Hotel to the bus station, I came along this collector of old-style petrol station equipment. * 1810 x 958 * (337KB)

02-NashuaRiver * The Nashua River from the bridge in downtown Nashua. It might be the Nashua Mall in the background but I'm not certain. * 1897 x 1266 * (346KB)

03-Nashee * Nashee - the New Hampshire version of the Monster of Loch Ness. * 1534 x 1124 * (368KB)

03a-Memorial * A memorial on the crossroads just outside the center. * 1140 x 1300 * (256KB)

04-Bird * Bird near the busstation * 528 x 378 * (57KB)
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05-AtlanticBvld-SummerStr * Near the crossing of Atlantic Boulevard and Summer Street. Tha glass triangle is actually the roof of an underground station. As any financial district, offices reach for the sky. * 1416 x 1581 * (326KB)

06-BostonCommon * Boston Common - similar to Londons Hyde Park. * 1984 x 1488 * (588KB)

07-NewCityHall * The new Town Hall with it's golden (!) roof. In the Second Worldwar, the dome was pained gray. It looks like the Capitol in Washington, and this is not a coincidence: This building was more or less the final rehearsal - it's the same architect. * 1209 x 1884 * (307KB)

08-GranaryBurringGround-1 * One of the oldest cemeraties - burrial grounds - of Boston. Here three persons are burried that had great influence on the freedom of the USA. The ones I remember are Otis and Adams. The trianglular 'tomb' on the right is dedicated to another famous Bostonian: Benjamin Franklin. But the left Boston and died in Philadelphia - and is burried there:This memorial commemorates his parents. * 1984 x 1488 * (626KB)

09-GranaryBurringGround-2 * Another view, from the other side. The stones do NOT resemble the location where people were actually burried; most people didn't have money for it anyway, and peaople were burries wherevere there seems to be an open space. It is estamated that this spot alone would hold about 10.000 bodies. In later days, this burrial grounds were kind of reshaped to this park-like enviornment and stones were just placed where appropiate. * 1984 x 1488 * (635KB)
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