We catch the train to Providence with Lachie and Chiara who have flown into Boston froma wedding weekend in Chicago. It's a little over an hour's trip from Boston to Providence.
How long can we last like this? Maybe 10 minutes.
Lachie and Chiara's home from the back, their apartment is the top floor, the loft recently renovated really nicely and then Chiara (and Lachie) have bought great furniture to fit it out. Best Air Bn'b we have stayed in.
Our room.
Their scooter and Chiara's herb garden included.
Even found a raptor in the tree which overhangs Chiara's herb garden!
Not far from Lachie and Chiara's apartment is a diner, we went there for lunch when we arrived. Lachie and Chiara had never eaten here, they thought we would try it out. It was a real diner.
About Providence from Wikipedia:
Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Providence has a population of 190,934, making it the third-most-populous city in New England after Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts.
Here we are having a beer with Lachie that evening also a short walk from their apartment. They had tried this one out before ... (Draw your own conclusions about the fingernails, Ed.)
Next day Lachie took us on a tour of Brown. Lachie and me on the scooter, Chiara and Bill on the bikes.
About Brown from Wikipedia:
In 1770, Brown University moved to Providence from nearby Warren. At the time, the college was known as Rhode Island College and occupied a single building on College Hill. The college's choice to relocate to Providence as opposed to Newport symbolized a larger shift away from the latter city's commercial and political dominance over the state.
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Looking back at the main quad.
The Computer Science building, where Lachie takes a class.
Down the middle stairs in the computer science building they have different models of computers through history. Lachie said this one would have enough memory to hold two of my photos. They have certainly progressed.
Department of Modern Culture and Media. Lachie is doing his PhD in this department, even though he is a computer science guy. (Sort of like trans-gender in a sense maybe, Ed.)
Lachie's office in that building.
This journal might explain it more ...
Bill and I came across this. It was dedicated on May 25th, 1985 - the day we got dedicated too!
We biked around Providence. Lachie is a squash watcher - a world tournament was on, featuring New Zealander Paul Coll.
On the way back we crossed a pedestrian and cycle bridge recently converted from cars. Chiara said the change had been very successful.
And to a riverside park too.
Lachie took us to one of the squah centres he plays at. We managed to get on the court with him for a few hits. He and Bill arranged for another go later in the week. Hopefully Bill will have improved by then.
Street art.
A cafe stop.
Next day we toured Providence surrounds in a car. We went to Newport, called in at Harry's Doyles Sails and negotiated him a job with owner Tom any time.
We went to the sailing museum in Newport, which had recently opened. It was fabulous (lots of interactive).
It was right on the harbour.
Chiara spotted a car she liked.
South of Newport.
