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After our long day yesterday, we decided to take things a bit easier today. We had a later start, grabbing Starbucks for breakfast again before leaving the hotel. We decided to spend a bit more time in the nearby parks, having only really walked through them enroute to other places the last couple of days. We started in the public gardens, sitting by the lake for a while and watching the dragonflies floating about. There was also a cormorant diving close to the edge of the lake for fish, which was interesting to watch but difficult to photograph as it was tricky to know where it was going to pop-up.

Moving on we wandered towards the Frog Pond in Boston Common, stopping off to take photos of the 'make way for ducklings statue' and also managing to get photos of a white breasted Nuthatch and a Southeastern Blue Jay on the way out.  Reaching the frog pond, there were lots of children playing in the water, Dani had a paddle and a wander but retreated after getting splashed a bit by some of the children.

We decided to have a wander down by the harbour, near the aquarium and started heading that way, stopping at Pret for some lunch and then again a bit further down the road at Tatte for some cake. We eventually reached the harbour about 4 o'clock wandering around for a couple of hours before heading back towards the hotel, stopping at Five Guys for tea. As we were walking back through Boston Common, they were just seting up for the last night of Shakespeare in the park which was due to start at 7. We nipped back to the hotel to drop some bits and then headed back to watch the play. The play finished around 9.30pm, giving us a bit of time to sort the cases out ready for our bus to Philadelphia tomorrow.