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Daily life in Boston

Peace, Love & Lobster Roll at the Barking Crab

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Peace, Love and Lobster RollsMy friend Marjorie came from France to Boston to spend 2 weeks of vacation on the East coast. She wanted to try some seafood from New England. The day was gorgeous, so we went to the Barking Crab, a sort of restaurant-tent close to the harbor, with a sort of fun fair look. The place was busy and pretty touristy, but we had an awesome table by the harbor, with the great view over Boston downtown. We had some lobster roll, lobster meat with mayo on a hot dog bun. It sounds like a sacrilege to do such a thing to a lobster, but it’s actually pretty good.

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12 American oddities that don’t seem so weird anymore

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Bienvenue à Boston
I’ve recently read this post from Diane, an American expat in France, in which she talks about some daily life particularities that she has now completely accepted. It reminds me of my own situation in the USA, and how much sometimes I’m confused about details. Well, I’ve been here for more than 1 year now, so I’m getting used to them but at first, it was a whole new world. This is my response to Diane, 12 details of daily life in the US that I’m now used to and find almost normal.

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Where to sleep in Boston // Neighborhoods of the city

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If you’ll go to Boston to spend a few days, one of the biggest question will be: what neighborhood should I stay. It can make a whole difference of liking or not a city according to the place you’re staying at. When I arrived in Boston at the beginning of 2012, I lived for the first 2 weeks in a residential area, and it really depressed me, coming from a lively place in Paris. Anyway, my goal was different, I was looking for a place to stay, but I knew that residential area were not for me. If you are looking for a short period of time place to stay, here are my recommendations…

Trouver un hotel à Boston
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Dirty Old Boston // A nostalgic vision of Boston

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Dirty Old Boston - A man walks with a bag along the street in the South End, 1965

It takes time to feel like home in a new city. I’ve been living in Boston for more than one year now, but I’m still wondering if Boston really is my “home sweet home”. To really like a city, I want to know more about the history of the places where I’m walking, living or working every day. I’ve recently started to follow a Facebook group called Dirty Old Boston. Every day, pictures of the city are posted: from buildings to people – famous, unknown, politics, base ball players, etc. – news, streets accidents, protests, or urban landscapes. Each picture tells something I didn’t know about Boston.  Here’s a sample of this fantastic group, Dirty Old Boston…

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