Today was our first full day in Boston. The b&b is very comfortable, but a little warm due to their broken air con.

Its perfectly placed for the MTR and an easy walk to the main areas. We had no real plans for the day so ambled around and ended up at Faneuil Hall and Quincey Market. a tourists dream of quaint shops selling the usual touristy stuff. Quincey Market is great, a concentration of loads of food stands plus a central sitting area. It just had to be done, Lobster and corn with clam chowder. Nicely satisfied it was off next door for a pint at Cheers Bar (yes the one from the old TV show), sadly not the actual bar but a replica, a good location to sit and people watch. Over then to Long Wharfe and a sit besides the harbour before eventually catching the MTR back to the b&b.

With tired feet and Mr Fogg just having settled down for a brief siesta all hell broke lose, fire alarms going off all over the building and the owner (Rheinhold) running around arms flapping and shouting for his partner (David) who sounded so iritable and def unwilling to help. It turns out the pair returned from a trip at the weekend to find the air con broken-well rather it had frozen up, so they opted to stick the unit on heat to melt it. Hmm, melting water in pipes tends to build up, and hey presto it flooded the fire alarms causing the sensors to freak. So what did we do? stuck a bucket under the drip and went rapidly out to leave them to their bickering. Of course, returning 20 mins later we got the full diatribe of what went wrong and how naughty tourists play with the temp settings to cause the freeze in the first place. Yawn

OK, so far nice place but not great hosts and very disorganised, but at least we now have air con!

Now to decide where to eat tonight.