In the Spring of 2017 and before my wife and I embarked on our trip to Iceland, we stayed in Boston, Massachusetts for two nights. Even though we had such a brief time in this city, we quickly fell in love with it. We were impressed by how beautiful and clean downtown Boston was. We stayed at the Fairmont Copley across from Copley Square which turned out to be a perfect location for us to begin our adventure.

On our first day, we walked the Freedom Trail. The Freedom trail is a 2.5-mile-long path that takes you by 16 historically significant locations starting from Boston Common to Bunker Hill. Some of the more notable places we saw along the Freedom Trail include the Old Granary Burial Ground where Paul Revere, the five victims of the Boston Massacre, and three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Paine are buried, the Old South Meeting House which was the organizing point for the Boston Tea Party, the Old Corner bookstore which is one of Boston’s oldest brick structures dating back to 1718 (it is now a Chipotle), the site of the Boston Massacre, Paul Revere’s house, the Bunker Hill Monument, and the USS Constitution which is the world’s oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat.

Our second day was a short one since we were due to fly out to Iceland later that night. But we were able to fit in plenty of sights around Boston during the day. We strolled through Boston Common which is the US’s oldest public park, we stopped and had a few beers in the Outfield at Fenway Park, and we visited Harvard University’s campus.