The Boston Traveler

Today’s guest post is from Mary Jo Manzanares, b5media’s Travel & Culture Channel Editor and travel blogger at Flyaway Cafe.
Have you noticed how the nights are getting just a little bit cooler? And in the mornings, there’s starting to be a little crispness in the air.
When the weather gets like this, I start thinking about the fall foliage, and how beautiful nature can be this time of year.
Word is that this year’s foliage New England foliage should be spectacular. The warm days and cool evenings are perfect conditions for dramatic color and foliage.
If you’re interested in planning a driving tour …read more

Comments Off

This is a very familiar sight in Boston lately since every day seems to bring yet another thunderstorm. Add periods of torrential rain — complete with booming thunder and startling lightning flashes — that are causing flash floods all over, and you can envision exactly what it looks like fairly regularly around these parts this summer. As a result, if you’re visiting Boston, make sure you don’t leave your hotel room or other lodging without an umbrella, no matter how deceptively sunny it looks outside at the time.
FYI: The photo above shows Boston and Cambridge in the early …read more

1 Comment

If you’ve been thinking about coming to Boston in the next couple of days and you have a choice of plans, I strongly suggest not bothering because, for the third day in a row, it is hot, hot, hot. In fact, tomorrow will mark the fourth day of stifling heat.
News outlets report temperatures well above the 90s and inching towards triple digits that are twenty degrees higher than normal.
On a typical day at about this time of June, it would be in the relatively calm and cool mid-70s. Instead, however, area residents are enduring what feels like an …read more

Comments Off

Well, at a truly warm and much-welcomed average temperature of just below 70 degrees, I’d have to say it was…

…all you need is thong slides and iced tea beautiful.

Photo: dreamymo

Comments Off

Just two weeks into the New Year, and already Boston has experienced a hallmark.
Monday morning brought so much snow to the Bay State—seven inches, in fact—that even I, who didn’t set a foot outside my residence, felt bogged down in the mushy white stuff. It covered my windows and the sidewalk leading up to every entrance, making me so very grateful that I had the opportunity to share a snowed-in day with all of the public school children in the area.
The folks waiting at Logan Airport to catch airplanes to some destination or another probably weren’t so thrilled, however. …read more

Comments Off

Snow days are here!
Thursday morning, Boston residents started receiving their holiday gift of a White Christmas almost two full weeks early. According to local newspaper the Boston Herald, the “wall of snow” immersed the state of Massachusetts in enough fluffy wetness to lead government officials to send all the kiddies home from school and their adult counterparts home from work, as well.
Sure, that sounds like a good thing sitting inside one’s warm, comfortable abode. But, the fallout on the roads most likely resulted in hundreds of irate drivers wishing they were back in their cubicles at the office …read more

3 Comments