Boston’s Liberty Hotel; Montreal
February 16th, 2010 at 11:32 pm ET
We had a long, long, long drive back from Boston today — counting stops, 6 hours and 40 minutes. We left the city in moderate snow, and hit another even heavier part of the storm system just south of Hartford. Aside from the stop midway at the freeway-close Athenian Diner III in Milford, Connecticut, it was almost unbearable, especially the last 30 miles of I-91 which hadn’t yet been plowed.
We stayed in the Liberty Hotel on Beacon Hill, which is built around and into the old Charles Street Jail, closed in 1991. They did a nice job in the conversion — historically and architecturally respectful, accessible, whimsical without being cheeseball. They named the bar “Clink.” How cool is that?
About Montreal, not much to say except that it still rocks, and it’s even more fun when it isn’t all slushy (as now) than it is when it is (as when we were there a year ago).
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