If you are going to travel to another country and want to buy a prepaid SIM card you might have a look to opensignal.com.
Tha page is made to check signal coverage in your destination.
Very nice…
Going To Michigan and or Canada / Toronto the first spot on the todo list should be Niagara falls. 4200 liters per seconds are falling 58 meters and are a tourist magnet category a++.
Around the falls a fluent tourism addicted village has grown and try to get as much money as possible out of the tourist wallet. Hotels, Casinos, Food, Parking spots, souvenirs, boat tours, helicopter tours, behind the falls tours and many more, take what you want.
What amused me very much is the fact that niagara falls looks like „selfie-eldorado“, it’s just amazing how many people using their Smartphones, Tablets, Camcorder or Digicams to capture them selves. Of course most of these pictures do not look that good, some years ago John Doe simply asked Carla Carrot to make a picture of John and John will also take a picture of Carla, tourist interaction at its best, but now, no one is willing to ask, even if that would end up in better pictures.
Things I planned for Niagara falls:
watch the water…
Things I haven’t done in Niagara falls:
helicopter tour (haha, the price for that is just a waste of money)
both any souvenirs or other swag (if you want to buy some souvenirs, go some streets further away from the main roads, their are quite a lot Souvenir-outlets)
eaten anything their, it is just to expensive
Things I would do within the next trip:
actually I did everything I wanted for niagara falls, there is not that much more to do there
Niagara Falls are awesome to watch, Boat tour is okay, but not a must-do, because it is quite expensive for only aprox. 20 minutes
The village is just bizarre like a big „funfair“ or Las Vegas style.
Burger King in Frankensteinis very cool..-
Things I have learned:
– pre buy boat ticket —> will save a lot of time or just do not make the boat trip
– selfie, selfie selfie…
– the closer you go to the falls area, the more the parking will cost you —> spend 5 minutes walking and save 50 %
– stuck in a elevator can be caused by a lady hitting a wrong button but can also be solved by a ladie hitting the right button
– mark your parking sport on GPS!
– never ever rent a car without „cruise control“ when going to Canada or US —> just boring only going straight for hundreds of miles
viewpicture.de my picture page now got an update to replace the simpleviewer gallery with juicebox.
Simpleviewer is using Flash to display images, due to technical capability reasons, flash is not the best choise and it also has security issues, that is why I moved to HTML5.
juicebox.net is offering a good script and App to create galleries.
Hope you enjoy the new page.
Following is a small test with Juicebox WordPress plugin:
You are using WordPress theme Twenty eleven and trying to set an post picture?
This image will be used as header image if you use a larger image then 1000 px wide.
If you choose smaller then 1000 px the picture will simply not used as header image.
Boston, a city with quite a lot of history on the east coast of the United states of america. Famous for lobster, his history, MIT and Harvard and Boston Marathon.
While Boston Marathon was just recently the target of an attack, the Marathon survived and the idea of using sports to bring people together. Boston is a very sporty city. While doing sightseeing or walking in one the parks you will see a lot of active people. The variety is from running, skating, cycling to rowing or sailing an the river.
During my time in Boston there were at least two 10 km running events in central Boston.
So defently a sport for sport minded people.
The history of Boston is (for US) very long, back to 1630 and the Boston Tea-Party, everything can be discovered while walking the so called „freedom trail“ which marks a way crossing the city of Boston and reaches all the touristic spots. Helpful volunteers will answer every question in most of the destinations.
As I like to discover new cites with the so called Hop-On Hop-Off busses, Boston is a city to be discovered per pedes. All the parks in Boston are perfect to take a little nap while listening to people playing their instruments or just observe one of the squirrels.
When hitting Boston, you will notice strange looking vehicles, called Ducks. Durck Tours are the Boston way to discover the city and combine streets with water. I haven’t done the Duck tour, since I tried to walk as much as possible.
POI: 4 Copley Pl #4155, Boston, MA 02116, Vereinigte Staaten
For hungry people there is one particular street with dozen of different restaurants and bars, but do not hit them at rush hour, the top locations are way overcrowded, but even besides that, Boston has all kind of food, but should at least try lobster once, even if it is not that cheap.
POI: Hanover Street, Boston, MA, USA
Being a nerd, Harvard and MIT were a must see on my list, so we went to Harvard via T, the subway in Boston, and explored the campus. It is very impressive and huge, even the area around the campus has „student-flair“. Beatiful buildings, students every were, but also a lot of tourists occupying the campus.
Completely opposite in my opinion is the MIT campus: no tourists, simple buildings, no students, no tourists, but a very nice setup on top of the highest Building. Nice side mark, on my way from T to MIT a girl went by smiling, it took 5 seconds until I found the „what was wrong with this girl“ – she was wearing google glasses – welcome to nerd heaven
POI:
– Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 United states
– MIT Cambridge, MA USA
Thinks I planned
– Hit the nicest park in Boston: Boston Common (Boston Common Boston, MA 02108)
– Play soccer with friends
– Walk the freedom trail
Things I haven’t planned but turned out to be very nice:
– Whale watching (just go to: Boston Harbor Cruises 1 Long Wharf Boston, MA 02110)
– Visit the Boston Bombing monument
– Visit Boston Red sox stadium
– hit the „T“ on the right station and let it play music (Kendall Band in Kendall Station, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
– make a run in one of the parks
– eat lobster
– very European city
– whale watching will help to support whales (tours are used to do research on their behaviors
– there are actually rules for whale watching (how long to watch a whale…)
– bring your passport to Bars / Clubs —> they are not happy only having IDs, even when they are official („we have MIT students, they can copy nearly every ID within 30 minutes…)
– Parish Cafe and Bar 361 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 – very good food (Sandwiches and Chicken Wings)
– Minbar 51 Huntington Ave Boston, MA 02116 – nice
– Storyville 90 Exeter St Boston, MA 02116 – good for clubbing
Disclaimer: This is not an travel guide, I just tried to write down my exp. during my time in Boston.
Recommended Book for Boston:
Due to some requests and recommendations for cities I have visisited in the past I decided to create a new category for this blog: travel.
I will try to write some posts about cities / countries.
Feedback is appriciated.
If you are running Windows 7, maybe with an external screen attached to your Notebook, you might find the problem that sometimes new Windows will be opened outside of the visible area.
To get the windows back, activate the window in Task bar, go with the mouse to the sub item of the window –> right klick -> move
Now the window is active and you can easily move it with arrows on your keyboard.
