I was Shipping Up to Boston . . .

...One of our next, long planned, roadtrips was to Boston, the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Boston itself is very important for the U.S. and is also one of the oldest cities in the States.

We left New York City on Friday morning and arrived in Boston at 01:00 PM (bus trip took us 4 hours). First we checked-in to our hostel (we were a bit scared, because the reviews were not good, but all of us got nice rooms and we had no problem):
After this we went to visit the Harvard University - I was really looking forward to that.
"It is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America."
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard, November, 26th 2008)

Below you can see John Harvard:
One building of the Harvard Business School:
Reading in the library of the Harvard Business School :-)
Harvard football stadium:
Very funny evening in a bar at Harvard Square:
(starting from left: David, me, Peter, Markus, Jessica (girlfriend of Nils) and Nils)
To conclude the campus and the buildings of the Harvard University are really amazing. If you are in Boston you have to visit it.

On the second day we went the Freedom Trail and watched all important sights like
- Boston Common
- Massachusetts State House
- Park Street Church
- King's Chapel
- Old South Meeting House
- Old State House
- Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market
- Paul Revere House
- Old North Church
- USS Constitution
there. The freedom trail is a red line on the ground which goes trough Boston and passes the most important buildings. It was very nice and it's a easy concept for tourists because otherwise you get lost without a good map.
On Sunday we visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as it is a must for us, because our majors are all on the technical side. MIT is one of the most famous technical universities on the world!
We went around the campus and made a short walk trough the buildings and also visited the MIT museum which is really nice and worth to visit. There you can see important research projects which originated at the MIT.

The main problem during our time in Boston was that it was really freezing all the time. We had some degrees below zero and with the wind it was even much colder.

Once again we took megabus to bring us to Boston. The bus trip was again safe and we had no problems. So for sure I would not hesitate to take megabus again.