Downtown Boston

Downtown Boston is not too bad a place. Its definitely not for shoppers, but you get to see a wide variety of buildings and performances. Why is it not for shoppers? Well lets compare the figures. The small sunny island of Singapore has a total of how many Zara stores? In Boston, MA, theres a total of 1 Zara store. haha enough said. There are at least 2 H & Ms though; we visited them. Oh, and at least 2 Borders.


This was the first place we went. Its called Washington Street or something. Its supposed to be a shopping district, and this was taken late afternoon on a Saturday. Look at the crowd! (or the lack of it). Nevertheless, you can find interesting stuff, like the bottom right picture, which stated that Benjamin Franklin worked as an apprentice here for his brother's printing company long long ago.


Downtown Boston is full of old and quaint buildings like the ones shown here. The bottom 2 photos are photos of a tourist trap known as Quincy Market, where tourists go to shop and to eat their Boston clam "chowdah"


This was another shopping district known as Newbury Street. The top 2 photos show a very old church, with its magnificent clock tower. I have no idea what denomination it is though. The bottom 2 photos show Newbury Street, which as you can see is not too crowded too. I haven't found their big shopping malls yet, but shops here are like stand alone stores with 3 or 4 storeys. And my favorite (spelt like an American!) activity so far is to sit at 1 corner in Borders and read their books. There's no point buying books because I cant bring them back anyway, with my luggage allowance being limited and all.