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So, you have not tried the best seafood in town before leaving Boston? No problem. Make sure to come by one of the Legal Sea foods, even before you hop on the plane.

Please check out our Logan Airport location at Terminal C.



p.s. I have no stake of any form in Legal sea foods.

Yeah, I just back to Ottawa last night and I'm driving down to TO this morning. :p

It just bring back memory...... the old days. RTHK did (and still does) have good programmes. I'm still kind of confuse (maybe because I didn't follow) on all these cancel horse racing episode.... why bother to boardcast horse racing when you have good programme to offer to audiences?

RTHK Classic Channel

I and Jalynn (yet another tester from work) get together around 11:00am and start driving to Cape Cod, a hook-shape peninsula south of Boston. It's loaded with ton of beaches, and a popular destination for weekenders.

We decided to go all the way to the tip of the cape, a town called Provincetown. The drive is about 3 hours, with many cars on the road, a lot of slow traffic, and my poor driving. On the way to our destination, we drove passed single-lane highway with sands on the roadside. That's reminds me of Florida Keys. There are also many sand dunes in the area. A nice scene with the blue sky as the backdrop.

We arrived and found parking, and go for lunch at Commons guesthouse and bistro bar, which Jalynn packed with the recommandation of Frammer's the guidebook. It is excellent food.



The town is mainly a beach area with a street that run near by it. A very touristly done. There is a wharf with ferry to Boston. A pier with many small fishing boats, they are kind of remind me of those in south of France or Italy.



There are many stores in town, like arts gallery, clothings, museums, and alike. We stumbled across one Hamalyia craft that sale clothing and stuff made by Napels, an increasing store. We also found a candy store and bought some Taffy. There is also a pilgram momument, a tall tower-like momument.



Provincetown is known to be gay and lesbian friendly, and indeed. A lot of them are on the street, some even threesomes.

We stopped for some cookies and drinks, then go beach hopping as sunset is approaching. We hit a few small public beaches (not all are public) and take some pictures. As sunset is happening, we found the perfect beach - Rock Harbor.



We head back home as night arrived and nothing left to see, until next time.

Ed's Photo Albums :: Walking Sand in Cape Cod

yeah, it's my time to try to see if I'm looking for the right female or I'm just grabbing the wrong chicks. hehehe.

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I returned to Chelmsford again 2 days after back from vacation+attend wedding in Calgary, just in time to escape from 30+ degree heat in Ottawa. After I get here, same old, nothing new. More works for Ed working night shift. It just that I got stomach aches for many days since I get back, sucks.

On Sunday, I and John (from work) went to cape Ann. Cape Ann is a coastal area near Boston, about an hour drive. It is consists of 4 communities: Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, and Manchester-by-the-sea. Many of the by-sea properties are occupied by nice (likely expensive) vacation houses.

Without knowing much of the area and what to do/see, we do what all tourist do: find the tourist centre. We follow the highway to the end and found Gloucester, America's oldest seaport. We are actually lucky to find the visitor centre in downtown Gloucester.

So, does this town sounds familiar? It's the one Gloucester in the movie "The Perfect Storm"! We drove by Cape Pond Ice, where the fishing boat Andrea Gail (The one got down with George C.) is park (a copy of it)..... but we didn't know we hit the spot! Actually, ice is a very important item for fisherman because they need ice to keep the fish fresh before dock and unload at port.



After breakfast at some local place, we start out to walk around the town, we saw the little statue of maritime artist Fitz Hugh Lane. There is a word by the statue: Step into my steps and become inspired



I did not step into his shoes, but already inspired.

We continue walk around the rest of the town, mostly just walk on and see thing. There are a church and few old buildings around, but that's about it.



Then we continue on to Rockport. We drove pass some nice by-the-sea scenic. We stopped on one place to see the sea from the shore. It's nice to be right by the sea since we don't get to see ocean in Ottawa.



Rockport is a relax small little town with many beaches and a wharf. It is really a nice place to walk around. There was a seafood shop in the Bearskin Neck, a shopping strip area. Before I set out for the day, I announced my theme of the day is lobster. So I have to have some freshly boiled LOBSTER!



It tastes really good when fresh. And there are so much juice from the boiler and some spill on my shorts... so, I got lobstered.



We continues drove around the area, stopped by Gloucester again to see the Fisherman's Memorial, which remember all fishmans go down with their ships. We didn't have time to check out Essex, but was driving along the road to Manchester-by-the-sea. The road is too far off from the sea so we decided to head back out to Boston for some good seafood at the Legal Seafood.

More pictures: Ed's Photo Albums :: Sunburn in Cape Ann

Just back from Calgary after some hiking and attended wedding, kind of tired. But yet I'm going back to Boston in a few days.

How often you see me holding so many flowers?

Just came back from Chelmsford yesterday morning, but than I'm going to Calgary for vacation and a wedding this afternoon.

I was just back on time to catch the Harry Connick, Jr show in Ottawa Jazz Festival. He's the first Jazz guy I listen to after I came to Canada, my secondary school pal Mike got me hooked to his songs. I like his music arrangement, as well as his deep sexy voice. The show was great. This is the first time I saw Harry on stage, he performed many songs from last year's Only You and did some pieces with a few excellent forks from New Orleans. It's wonderful. One thing I noticed is Harry's thick Southern US accent, which I did not realized when listen to his songs. He certainly is a cool and humor character, and he's only 37!

Alberta is having a lot of flooding, and I certainly it impacts my touring plan. I think Drumheller is out of the list, and I got to make sure I don't go up the mountain for white water rifting.... maybe I should make sure to stay on the high ground.

Also, I will likely be go back to my old university for a visit to a friend, so maybe I will run into pig in UofC? hehehe

The week's work start gets a bit busy, as I have to work on Sat. Me and Chester decided to check out somewhere near by on Sunday. The guy in the hotel registration suggested we go to Lexington. So, we hit Leington.

Lexington is a battle ground in the independance war, British came out of Boston to disarm the rebels. The first shoot of the war goes off here when the red coats confront the militia, few got killed and all. The British march on into the next town called Concord, and they got beating up and retreated back to Boston. The Rebels take one for the first round.

Lexington and the surrounding area is now a national park, which is nice to drive though. There is a bike path and some trails in the area. I was thinking I should drag my rollarblade down next time comig down for a blade there.

The day ends with some ok Thai food in Lexington before return to the hotel.

Chilling Out in Lexington