"The Athens of America"

Boston--a place I visited about ten years ago. Today, my friend and I found ourselves wandering in this lovely city with my google maps and list of restaurants.

Our first stop was a brief window shopping on Newbury Street. Instead of being a shopaholic, we had a pear-ginger upsidedown cake at L'Amora Cafe.


This is the facade of the building where one of the Finale restaurants is located.
We ordered Finale Forest, Razzmatazz, [Boston cream cake] and a soup for lunch there.


By the lagoon, a squirrel came to us, standing there patiently. Apparently it was eager to be fed. Soon enough, it got disappointed and walked away.

Without a Lonely Planet in hand, we realized that we had missed The Freedom Trail that we were just walking along towards Faneuil Hall Marketplace. In fact, we indulged ourselves with 2 scoops of Joey's Gelato (green apple and mint chocolate) in Quincy Market. We decided to have an early dinner at Union Oyster House. The rotating miniature of this historic site at the window of the gift shop drew our attention. After a brief shopping, we turned ourselves in to a waitress who later brought us to the Colonial Room for dinner. We simply ordered a Shore Dinner.




After that, we made our move to Boston Chowda where I ordered a small Clam Chowda and a Lobster pie to go.

We took the train from State station to South Station to catch a bus for our return.

November 6

是日心情=是日天氣=陰陰沉沉

因為Subway跳站令我遲到，加上她的態度令我氣上心頭，所以一大清早就好嬲。改期？仍是未知之數。居住在城市，Walk it off 可算是最簡單的調節心情方法。走累了，自然氣也消了。洗澡後，再次精神奕奕，心情靚靚地去歎茶。

Alice's Tea Cup (Chapter II)

November 4th and 5th

走訪記

昨天為了令今天的時間表空出一點時間來溫習，我把兩天的行程合起來。跟友人聯絡後，就出門了。在十二小時內，我到過紐約上城，Brooklyn, 再返Manhattan。

整天在Subway及人群中穿插。Coffee 完又Coffee。一Tea再Tea。之後仲有甜品。

One of the highlights is The Hungarian Pastry Shop on Amsterdam Avenue.
A neighborhood-friendly cafe with neither air conditioning nor music. It has indoor and outdoor seating. The order was to be delivered to the table. It's dim inside, but I found myself seating by the wall where a wall light is located.

When I was walking home, I heard people screaming. I had no clues why they got so excited on a Tuesday evening until I heard "O-ba-ma."

悠閒的一天

今天應該可以把那封遲遲未完成的信寫完。

November 3rd

I signed up for a pastry course more than a month ago at Cha-An. They called me up to confirm over the weekend, letting me know that I would be the only non-Japanese in the course, which would be taught in Japanese. I knew it might be awkward, but it's not like the first time I've been to places or situation like that. So there I was, standing in a kitchen with ten Japanese students and one ABC. The majority of students seemed to be a bit older, and Chef Sato assigned me to be in a group with three younger girls (one got a call from office, so she left early). We made chestnuts tarts, though they looked more like huge macaroons to me.

其實今早感到不適，忘記食藥打底就出門去了。弱不襟風，竟就此出事了。

原先定下的行程要臨時取消，改為睡覺。醒來後，心情煩燥兼暈陀陀。幸好只浪費了大半天，就已完全康復。 (可能我底子好啦，哈!)

明日是出遊記
後日是今日行程的延續
星期四的早上不容錯失
星期五仍有待確實

November 2nd

Shortly after my post last night, I fell asleep. How ironic! Today, I was planning my week-off and trying to organize some pictures on my online album.

I am looking forward to my extraordinary pastry experience tomorrow. (How extraordinary? I will let you know, but I can say that it has something to do with communication.)

十一月，玩時玩，有些事情得要認真起來。