Boston
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The skyline of Boston... such a beautiful city! |
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Ain't THAT beautiful??? |
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Park Street - one of the main T-Line stations in Boston. Funny aspect aside: the T-Lines don't have names here... but colors! The red line, green line, blue line, orange line and the violet Comuter-Railway. |
The park of Harvard University. One says, that its reputation only is valid in Europe. Within the States its reputation is rather not that good... |
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As I told you, everything here is really huge! That what I am holding in my hand is a big Dunkin' Donut Blueberry-Muffin! |
This picture was taken from the place between Faneuil-Hall and Quincy-Market. |
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Our school, near Newton/Cambridge |
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Aircondition in the T-Line |
Aircondition in the bus |
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Daisuke and Reinhard |
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Preparing to eat our lobster
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And we really enjoyed this evening (although the beer was really, really bad... did I already mention this ;-) Reinhard, me, Kyoko, Hiroki (we were living in the same hostfamily) and Daisuke, that lived in the same host-family as Reinhard (spoken: Daiske and not to be confused with Taiski that means I love you in japanese!) |
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That was MY lobster: It had no name but his weight was over 1,5 pounds! Served with mussels and corn-sticks as well as with american beer (I cannot advise the latter) |
Funny, the harmony of old and new buildings... |
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A very nice house in Beacon Hill |
Beacon Hill |
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Massachusetts State House |
Going to P-Town by fast-boat takes you about 1,5 hours |
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On my first Sunday we planned a trip to P-Town (Provincetown in Cape Cod) |
You can find there some of the most beautiful beaches all over the States! |
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And there were also so many beautiful houses, lots of flowers... |
Reinhard already has visited Cape Cod with Daisuken - but nevertheless he enjoyed a clam-chowder with me! |
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And: it's the "gay-city" as you can see on this photo (flags) |
Here from the boat on our departure... You can see the famous Milgrim Monument |
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This was my host-family: John and Joann Gallello - two really wonderful people. They made me have such a great time! |
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Both of them are still working and love animals... |
Patches |
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... as you can see. May I present Patches, the house-host-cat to you? It's a lady and she is very cute! John caresses her all the time and Patches & me got friends very soon. But Patches misses her friend, Piwi, a little white dog that unfortunately died this June. |
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We spent the next weekend in New York - and our hotel was situated near Broadway on the 43rd street, not far away from the famous Victory Theater. |
The Statue of Liberty - die Freiheitsstatue |
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And the proof: the roads are so long and so straight, you can't even see the end of the road! |
The New York Stock Exchange is situated in the famous Wall-Street, not far away from Ground Zero.... |
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Two common expressions in this business: bear... |
...and a bull |
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The Flatiron Building |
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Ground Zero, after almost one year |
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Everything is huge within the States... a stretched Limousine. |
Times Square - it's such a huge, illuminated place! |
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And even in Rockport you can buy real, fresh austrian "Strudel" - incredible :-) |
Rockport, a small famous village north of Boston, near Gloucester (both famous for its lobster and other seafood) |
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And that's why they call it "Rockport"... |
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Our very first live baseball game: the Red Sox vs. Toronto in Boston's Fenway-Hall. |
Huh! An escalating discussion after a very strange decision by a referee (he gave a strike for Toronto altough it was ball out) |
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The Red Sox in action |
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And the Red Sox can count on their two new fans |
look at this nice little "Bierbauch" ;-) I'm sure Reinhard will hang me up by my feet when he reads this ;-) |
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Even the squirrels here are so big, bigger than those in Austria, and all that I saw grey-brown. |
The famous Ducklings |
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On one evening I cooked a good austrian meal: Paprikasuppe, gratinierte Schinkenfleckerl and Bananenschnitte. And everyone was delighted... |
"Auf in den Kampf mit den Schinkenfleckerl" :-) Bon Appetit! |
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The next evening just a little change of decoration and my japanese hostmates cooked a very delicious japanese mail. |
We enjoyed! With Kirin-beer... |
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Goodbye to my schoolmate Massah (Japan) |
Our last breakfast... with delicious coffee, pancakes, scrambled eggs and marple sirup |
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Only a few more hours... |
Time to say goodbye to Kyoko and Hiroki |
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MISS YOU! |
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