Boston Massachusetts Guide. Best things to do in a day.

welcome to Boston a city most definitely built on the sea the cruise ship is based at black Auckland dock which is here and the shuttle bus will take you to here to Quincy Market just up from The Wharf is the Black Rose Pub it's an Irish pub and just behind that is the marketplace where apparently all the fun happens morning and evening according to the locals princess is mainly a cheap place to eat takeaway food and it's good they built a pub called Cheers near quinces to capitalize on the name but the real place is in Deacon Hill and we'll take you there later just outside quinces is the Nile Hall which is a visitor center and retail shops and we're going to pick up the Freedom Trail here in the 18th century Boston's Patriots led the American colonies in defense of their threatened Liberty protesting against unjust treatment by the British crown there's a talk here daily at 3 30 and today it's a ranger talking about the Native Americans in Massachusetts a local guide will tell you so much more but if you want to do it alone how do you follow the Freedom Trail look down inside this building is actually the state blue line tube and it's a beautiful building the Old State meeting house is a meeting house and in 1876 the bostonians fought to save this building from the wrecking ball foreign part of Boston it's a wash with little tutorials still on the Freedom Trail one bar we saw had Tom Cruise and Robert De Niro's picture in the window and we're looking for Paul Revere's house in the Italian area just down the bottom of Princess Street is the Sacred Heart Church we're getting closer the Bethel in North Square the most historic Square in Boston was founded in 1828 for the moral and religious instruction of seamen and it was remodeled as the Sacred Heart and this is Paul Revere's house where he lived with his wife Rachel Paul Revere was an American silversmith and engraver one of the founding fathers he's credited with organizing and creating the alarm system that told when the British were coming you'll hear stories of him riding out and coming back to give a warning but there was probably a lot more to it than that and here's the man himself Paul Revere he rode out and told everyone that the British were coming Little House was built in 1712 and it managed to survive when all its neighbors were torn down even Benjamin Franklin's house next door we're going to take that an hour to make a pound of chocolate this way so uh chocolate mushrooms were actually eating rice milk so they'll just grind everything down and once they have it down to a paste you will just start adding their spices never chocolate Mitchell had their own recipe and they would uh never ever write it down if you don't want your Cutters to get your recipe and that's their customers so right now you can make chocolate black that you said yeah so I'd scrape it off again pop into my molds down there once I had enough in there just eight spices so it's a vanilla cinnamon nutmeg Chili Pepper orange zest and it's banana and salt wow if we are used to having about a cup of sugar a day versus their cup of sugar for every four months and that's if they could afford sugar at all the era the Revolutionary War people drink hot chocolate and cry on their news by printing them so we are printing today treason and Sedition in the form of the Declaration of Independence that you could get in trouble for this for sure here are your letters uh in each little case the letters you won't need as much like your capital letters will be up there for instance in your upper case and your other letters will be down here in your lower case right this is leather up top hammered all the way around and r ink formulas in 18th century formula it is carbon black linseed oil which is like flaxseed oil boiled and then Pine resins once this was all laid out that was the hard part then you could do a sheet every 15 seconds one person inking one person pushing through so here we go it's down this is a double press we're going to press twice I'm going to pull this it's going to push the plotting down the ink is going to set in the paper and here we go wow I'll take it out I'll hold it up the general content doesn't change but some changes here and there and we're the only ones to reprint the Boston Edition since the 1700s we sell these for just 17.76 so to find this little gem you go down Hanover Street cut through the park to Unity Street and it's Clough house you walk towards north church and they work off donations it's well worth the visit this is the beautiful Boston Common and we're searching for the Cheers Bar we're walking through to the top of the common and we're going to pass the Boston Massachusetts state house which is that building there sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name I guess Boston will have to go on our movie location section the Boston bar that inspired the TV series cheers was originally known as The Bull and Finch Pub and was established in 1969. they really used the exterior and the idea of the pub and it's taken the name cheers now you go downstairs into the basement level below street level to get in and you go upstairs to the bar which looks more like the one that you'll see in the TV show if you do go to the cheers well just behind it is an area of old historic houses it's great for a stroll around let's take a look around long more just a generation ago whole Bay was a complete mess if you fancy sailing on a Clipper they have tall ships here the wolf project began in 1984 to protect public access from the ever developing Waterfront it now stretches an amazing 43 miles do you have your walking shoes on this is the start of Boston's Harbor walk where possible the pathway is 12 foot wide and links public amenities such as parks and restaurants but very importantly bathrooms there is also a water transportation infrastructure not that so if you're dropped at Quincy's by your cruise shuttle The Wharf is right there the harbor walk is full of sea grills and nice cafes and on a pleasant evening what better place could you come there are Endless Sea tours available Pirates whale watching and you can find them listed on our Doris visits tours selection pages on our website but now we're looking for the Boston Tea Party Museum and I think it's over there the British prime minister George Greenville believed that the colonies because they had benefited so much from the war should help pay for the 10 000 troops that were still in America so he put attacks on sugar the Americans objected to this Samuel Adams said if taxes are laid on us in any shape without us having legal representation are we not reduced from the character of subjects to the miserable state of tributary slay this is the Boston Tea Party Museum it's 28 to go in so it's quite a lot they do theme evenings here with actors in historical costumes the Sugar Act didn't generate enough money so the government passed the Stamp Act which affected paper this was met with a storm of protest then they taxed paint glass lead and tea hostility grew rapidly British soldiers fired into a crowd of unarmed civilians and this fueled the outrage of the people of Boston and this event became known as the Boston Massacre we finished up our day in Boston with a bite to eat at Joe's which is right on the waterfront really good value and delicious food we've arrived at Troy it's about five minutes away from the museum in the coach the important positioning is the land of Troy meant that it was occupied for over 3 000 years so there was probably one troy two right up to Troy nine and they're all standing on top of each other no one knows what they were actually called but archaeologists have labeled them that Carlos killing him [Music]