Unusual tours of Boston

Help!!!

We are going to Boston in two weeks for a friend%26#39;s wedding so our four day trip is only realistically be about 2 days after rehearsals and other wedding things so I need a bit of a whistlestop tour of Boston.

I would really like to see the city in a slightly more unusual way than one of the other standard ways. Has anyone got any suggestions?

Unusual tours of Boston

What are your ages, interests etc.? What do you consider ';standard';? Boston is a relatively small city, so you can see most of it in just a couple days... especially if you have time to fit some little things into whatever small amounts of time you may get between ';wedding things';.

Unusual tours of Boston

We are both late 20%26#39;s; we are quite open to anything really except perhaps lots of reading in museums. Much prefer being able to whizz round museums and see the salient points.

The wedding is at Harvard so we will probably get to see quite a lot of that anyway and we are staying at the Royal Sonesta which I hope will be close to both the centre and the wedding.

We were keen on the duck tour; as it was a laugh in London; but have been put off by the %26#39;quacking%26#39; at passers by.

Here are 2 overviews for you from Frommer%26#39;s:

frommers.com/destinations/鈥?004010019.html

frommers.com/destinations/鈥?004010008.html

For others who may be reading this thread in the future (given your time constraints, KLB, I doubt you%26#39;ll want to take advantage of it -- but perhaps your next time here!), there is an excellent ';culinary tour'; of Boston%26#39;s (Italian) North End:

http://www.northendmarkettours.com

Cocklecove; that sounds brilliant. Just up our street. Where food is concerned my boyfriend is normally there at the front of the queue!

Then I%26#39;m so happy, KLB, that I included it! :-)

鈥arvard.edu/exhibitions/glassflowers.html

you must check these out at Harvard - amazing collection of glass flowers!

don%26#39;t forget Chinatown and the great places for Dim Sum

Then there%26#39;s this new tour just started recently: locations in and around the city where well-known films have been shot.

http://www.bostonmovietours.net/

The Boston Movie Mile Walking Tour

viator.com/tours/Boston/3322BMT/Boston-Movie鈥?/a>

Don%26#39;t miss the ';other'; parts of Cambridge... Central, Inman, and Porter (and of course, Harvard) Squares all boast some of the most diverse dining in the whole Boston area. (I highly recommend the East Coast Grill in Inman Square, for a great spicy barbeque) The Middle East in Central Square gets some really great live entertainment.

I took the Ducks tour and I had a blast - I love the Duck tours - I%26#39;ve been on 5 in various cities and I%26#39;m in my late 30s. It is definitely a unique tour since not many other tours are on land and in the water. It is a really interesting tour of the area as well. It is so much fun! Hope you get the chance to do it.