Boston, Bar Harbour

10.10 A glorious  day. Queued up to go through US immigration and then tender to shore. Joined the Acadia national park tour with a very good guide and the views from Mount Cadillac were superb. We also visited the wild flowers garden and nature centre and the Thunderhole. It was a lovely drive. Spoke to Ciarán and Seán on Skype in a café. Back to the ship for afternoon tea and started packing cases. Hot tub and swam in pool. To Mass and Tom was there and chat to Louise from Louisiana. Nice dinner in dining room with Americans and Australians. Adagio and piano bar and then show Dancing with the stars won by lady originally from South Korea.

11.10 Docked in Boston and eventually said a fond farewell to stateroom 391. We are booked on an Adriatic cruise next April with a veranda stateroom on the port side. Luggage taken ashore and got a to 46 Williams Street – a lovely room with bathroom. Joyce gave us more breakfast and we met Snowy. Set off to get a transport weekly pass and as it was raining to the Isabel Stewart Granger museum – na amazing eccentric collection with some treasures e.g. Sargent, Velasquez, Rembrandt, Napoleon memorabilia, Botticelli, etc. There was a big queue when we left. The Museum of Fine arts is expensive and huge so we just did the European sections, Sargent and the wonderful musical instruments gallery. The trolleys are the oldest in the US and we went to Park station for a coffee. Into Macy’s for the loo and ate steak in food court. To Symphony Hall early so plenty of time to look at interesting displays and shop. A lovely hall with a superb acoustic. Schubert and Mozart played and conducted by Christian Zacharias. We sat in second balcony at the right hand side. 2 trolleys home.