Graham & I hiking in Massachusetts

My brother, Graham, was visiting Boston for a few days, which was pretty fab. In addition to seeing the city together, we drove out to Mount Monadnock (a cool drive) and hiked up one of the less frequented trails. It was a very hot and humid day, but the hike provided great views of MA & NH. Long live the summer!

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Pretty much the last people I saw in Europe before leaving for the Americas were Jason and Helen, in Leiden. I was delighted, therefore, to have the opportunity to return the favour by hosting them here in Boston. It was great catching up and hearing about their coming wedding. They're a terrific couple and I'm really glad they're tying the knot later this year :-)

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I had to go down to NJ for work, and rather than flying through Newark Airport (always trouble), I opted to drive.





Since I was in the neighbourhood, I met my old CATSAT buddy Joel, who lives in Jersey City. We had coffee and then visited a flea-market in Manhattan. I had hoped that we would find some old musical instrument sufficiently esoteric to warrant inclusion in Joel's eccumenical collection, but we had to make-do with the discovery of this arcane tome.


This was the first time I had visited NYC since being there with Jamie in 1994. It was just as good second time around.

The driving was great, the visit to NYC was fun, it was cool to spend time with Joel and the week's work in New Jersey could not have gone better :-)




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