Last week we went to Boston for our Visa interviews for our French Visa applications. This was more like a "turning in loads of documents appointment" than it was an actual interview. But it went well as all the papers did get turned in, apparently. And our handprints were taken. So... that's hopeful.
Despite being sick with a fairly vigorous cold all weekend, the trip was a great deal of fun. I love traveling with my wife. Boston is surprisingly (to me) terrific. The North End is astonishingly like Italy. We also went to Providence, Rhode Island and Newport, Rhode Island and I learned that I have reallly missed out on the Northeast for all these years. I was shocked to learn that Saint Minneapolis is, alas, a bit like watered down versions of these cities, slightly inferior copies, at least in architecture and in the rich, historical feel of the cities. Coming from the west I was easily impressed by the midwest, but perhaps unduly so! I have been in Boston before, but not in nearly as interesting parts as this time, and I've been to New York a lot, which is so its own wonderful thing, but fundementally bespoke in all the world. So my eyes were opened on this brief journey!
Anyway, enough of that. I mainly meant to present the trip in cartoons today. And so here they are:
Plane:
Boston's South Station:
Boston's Legal Seafoods:
Newport, Rhode Island:
Plane:
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