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$12 Freedom Trail podcast - worth it?
A lot of people recommend walking the Freedom Trail and have said to look up podcasts we can download instead of paying for a tour.
http://www.trekexchange.com/tours/108
Or does anyone know where to download a free podcast?
We'll be in Boston May 3-4, 2010.
Thanks! :-)
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Re: $12 Freedom Trail podcast - worth it?
That is sort of a cool idea. I've done the trail twice with out of town family, and I am sure this will provide plenty of info we didn't get.
However, more than spending the $, I don't like the idea of doing the tour with ipod buds in my ears the entire time. That seems like it would shut me off from the world instead of open me up. I don't like the idea of losing that element of interaction with other tourists, my family, and folks working the Freedom Trail.
During your time on the Freedom Trail there will be plenty of tours going on simultaneously to your walk: at the churches, in the graveyards, and in the old state house, for example. I think that's a good way to gain more info...even if you have to listen in on some of the tours people have paid for
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I recommend a duck tour too. It is VERY expensive (in my opinion), but a lot of fun. I have been on 2 and each one was a unique experience. If you get Sgt. Duck Tape as your guide, give him a hard time for me!
Good luck!
Definitly follow the trail. When I was learning the city growing up, I would always use the trail to figure out how to get around when I was lost. Once I found the redline I golden, my yellow brick road.
The tours with interpreters dressed in period costumes are fun...I think the national parks service puts them on for the same price as the podcast you were looking at per person.
Pros of the podcast, you can do it at your own speed, take breaks stop and look around the neighborhood. If you choose to do this on your own, I'd recommend you do it "backwards" starting at the Bunker Hill Monument, because then your going against the regular traffic flow of tourists, and you start by going DOWN the hill rather than going up it at the end of the tour.
Pros of the interpreters , if you have other questions, you can ask them. You can always go back to the neighborhoods that look interesting to you after. Boston is a very walkable city.