Day 22: Boston MA
Welcome
Yesterday we arrived in Boston, Massachusetts after an eight hour drive from Washington, DC.
We woke up to find the bus parked behind the Royale in downtown Boston. It had snowed overnight. Not just ground snow and tree snow but wall snow too.
Liz and I walked down to Mike and Patty’s sandwich shop where I ordered a Fancy - two fried eggs, bacon, cheddar cheese, avocado, red onion and house-mayo on toasted multigrain.
I followed up my meal with a walk through Boston Common, the oldest city park in the US. Built in 1634 it has had many uses over the years including cow pasture, military camp, public hangings, and dumping ground.
I then walked West for a few blocks until I got to the Charles River and spotted this iconic span, the Longfellow Bridge. Built between 1900 and 1907 it is a Steel Rib Arch Bridge comprised of eleven steel arches supported by ten hollow masonry piers and two abutments. It features a longest span of 57.5 metres and carries it’s two railway lines and four lanes of vehicle traffic along with pedestrian and cycle traffic 500m across the Charles connecting downtown Boston with Cambridge.
There comes a point in the creation of every album when you realise that some of the electric guitars that you recorded in the Webster Hall after soundcheck sounded great but you also needed some keyboards and luckily Mateo has an excellent synthesiser so the easiest thing is to set up the rear lounge bus studio to create some real magic.
📷 Liz Stokes.
The show was at Royale - a former opera house built in 1918. We loved playing in this beautiful old room and the Boston crowd were a huge amount of fun even though it was a very early show (we had to finish by 9.30 so the theatre could turn into a club).
📷 Liz Stokes.
📷 Jacob Snell.
📷 Jacob Snell.