St. Peter: cosa c’è intorno, come arrivare e quando andare · 2026

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If you are passing through Boston and don't have much time to see everything, it makes sense to take a Duck tour. It's a city tour on a bus that can also swim, which it does with pleasure along the canal. The route starts at the Museum of Science. You can also buy a ticket there to visit five major Boston attractions: Prudential Tower, Museum of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Aquarium, and JFK Library. It costs around $40, which is about twice as cheap as buying tickets separately. We walked around Boston a lot and covered almost the entire city; it's small—about 600,000 residents excluding the suburbs, and a third of them are students. It's very easy to navigate—you can see two skyscrapers from almost anywhere: Prudential and Hancock's. You can determine your location by their position, like stars. Hancock's is taller, but tourists aren't allowed up. However, you can go up to the observation deck at Prudential and listen to an audio tour of Boston. It's very beautiful. There is also a restaurant one floor up. You must visit Quincy Market (not to be confused with the town of Quincy). You will definitely be able to see some street show or listen to street musicians there. There are many souvenir shops and places where you can eat well. But I would advise eating in the Italian district, a stone's throw from Quincy Market. You need to walk to the streets that are parallel to the one leading to North Station but are closer to the outskirts of the city. There are many cheap, pleasant restaurants there. Once, I accidentally ended up there during a festival when I was wandering around aimlessly after missing my train—St. Agripina's Day, I think. It was very fun, with a good concert and general merriment. Italians love to throw parties -) I also saw one in Gloucester—St. Peter's Fiesta. It is held annually in late June and lasts for several days. It's worth visiting this small town just for it. As for famous educational institutions, we visited MIT and Harvard. They didn't leave much of an impression. I remember that people were playing American football on the lawn in front of the main entrance to MIT. In Boston, you can also go boating to watch the sunset and whales. I kept putting it off until the last minute and never made it. These routes start from the Quincy Market area, for example. About sports. I was lucky—that year, the Boston Celtics won the NBA championship for the first time in decades. The victory was met with universal jubilation. An acquaintance told me that he was kicked out of his apartment because of it. They were watching the finals loudly, the neighbors called the landlady, the landlady asked them to be quieter, to which they replied, "The Celtics might become champions for the first time in 20 years and you're asking me to be quiet?" For me, hockey was the most interesting, but unfortunately, there are no matches in the summer, so I didn't get to see the Boston Bruins. As for playing sports yourself, there are no problems at all. There are plenty of open courts of all kinds. I love tennis—there are plenty of courts and nets everywhere, we played with pleasure. For Americans, baseball is undoubtedly in first place. You can see a bunch of people on the street wearing Boston Red Sox jerseys. I once asked, "Tell me at least the rules of baseball. I'm not trying to understand why you love it." "The rule is very simple—you have to hate the New York Yankees." At the time, the Museum of Science had a traveling exhibition dedicated to baseball. It was about history and various things where you could measure the speed of your throw and test your reaction speed against a ball from a cannon flying at the average speed of a professional pitch. Even though I explain the interest in baseball as madness, I must admit that they throw the ball at a crazy speed. By the way, the Museum of Science is an interesting place in general. If you have time, I advise you to go there, and more than once. There are a bunch of interactive exhib