Random Boston and Around

Random random photos from my recent Boston trip…

Drinking In and Around Boston

What I drank on my trip to Boston!

These I had to leave behind. 😦

Ha! Sunday morning @ the airport.

A Small Collection of Beacon Hill Doors

They are so picture-perfect. 🙂

No. 10 Louisburg Square is where Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, lived.

Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts

Louisburg Square, Boston

 

Streets of Beacon Hill, Boston

I wrote about Acorn Street in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood several days ago.  The same neighborhood has other streets named after “nuts” that are quite charming.

Boston Cream Pie

I had zero knowledge of this famous “pie” which is not a pie but a cake until my Bhutanese friend living in Oxford, Connecticut told my mother and me about it on the day she and her German husband drove up to Boston to see us.

Boston cream pie is supposed to have originated at the historically notable Parker Hotel. The hotel still stands as Omni Parker House in downtown Boston.

Boston cream pie

We had also ordered “Parker rolls” which I was under the wrong impression were similar to canolli, the Italian pastry. They are just plain, rather dry-looking bread, as seen in the basket my friend Kesang is holding.