Stayed in the Days Inn in Boston preparatory to leaving Boston and heading upcountry to a wedding. The Inn is located a long way from the centre of things and more importantly is not on the T, Boston's excellent public transport system. The result is that one must take a taxi from the nearest T stop which is a reasonable distance away.
There are no amenities near the Days Inn save a McDonalds and an Ihop next door,and the Inn itself does not offer any food facilities.
The room I had was clean and serviceable and I couldn't particularly fault it. However the reception area has seen better days, although still not particularly bad - just a little worn and frayed around the edges. I paid $109 per night plus tax which I thought a bit steep for somewhere like this, but you'll pay that anywhere in Boston.
Boston itself is nice enough I suppose-it's no different to a dozen other cities I've visited - but what I found horrible was the sense of fear and paranoia everywhere one goes. You can't enter a bar or any public building without a passport, and we were informed in one bar that non-US passports were not accepted. A bit of a problem seeing as I'm not a US citizen - essentially this was a US-only bar it seems, a little ironic as it was an "Irish" bar (to an Irish person it was about as Irish as the Taj Mahal) and I am Irish myself. Couldn't even buy a bus ticket without showing the passport. In my experience the US isn't the land of the free, it's the land of the rules and regulations.
Whilst at the Boston General Hospital stop of the T system two Indian doctors got on, still in their scrubs, and began to chat in Hindi, whereupon the man sitting next to me wondered out loud in a worried manner if perhaps they were Muslims. He was a little shocked to hear my negative reply spoken in a heavy non-US accent, but seemed to accept my assertion that they were speaking Hindi and therefore probably weren't Arabs. What he expected them to do if they were Muslim is anyone's guess.
Look lads, not everyone is out to do America harm - to be honest most of the rest of the world doesn't care about you one way or the other. I've done my sightseeing in America, had a taste of your culture, and I am glad to be home in the REAL land of the free.
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