Life in Boston, our favorite neighborhoods, daily life, walks in the city…
We’ve been in Boston for 6 months. I feel like Boston were “my” city now. So much changes happened in these 6 months: our daily life, new friends and more generally… a new way of
There was no way to hide this fact: we didn’t do anything last weekend. It was very rainy (a pouring rain, like in Brittany in France (sort of like Seattle), the art festival in Cambridge
On Thursdays afternoon, I teach French in a school, in Cambridge, and I go through Harvard University. This day, I hear some clamor: it’s Commencement Day (I’ve just learn this expression). I see a lot of students
Last Sunday night, to avoid the spleen of this specific night, we wanted to spend time outside. We always see people running, and we wondered “why not us”, and then we really thought about it
We did it! We’ve moved in a new, nice, calm and sunny flat… Long story short, I love it. I’m so glad we’ve changed, it wasn’t easy. At first we were told it was impossible
The sun shines, and I really want to spend lazy time close to water. Perfect: there are tons of ponds, lakes and reservoirs in and around Boston. Last Saturday we’ve started a pond tour of
Saturday morning. I woke up and there’s no bread for breakfast. What can I do? Do I go to Walgreens (a big pharmacy where you can buy a lot of stuff, and medicines) to buy bread? But I’m
When Manu went alone in Boston for the first time, last September, to do interviews for a job, he brought me pics of the city when he get back from Paris. There were a lot of
I only knew one type of food truck, typical of North of France: the “french fries food truck” (so-called la baraque à frites). We used to stop by when I was young, when we were coming home from
Last Sunday, we went to a Mayfair on Harvard Square, in Cambridge. The program was music, food and craft stands. But the main interest was really all the ‘regional’ foods. Midwest stand, or the contest
Riding the streets, hair flying along the wind, looking up at buildings… Boston seems a bike-friendly city, with cycling routes. And Boston is so anti-subway (so slow, and so few) that it’s the liberation we’ve
The third Monday of April, it’s an holiday in the US, thanks to Patriot’s Day. As good holiday patriots, we enjoyed a 3 days weekend to discover Maine, a northeast state of New England. Vermont was