My approach to visiting cities is to do it when they are celebrating because you get to witness it at its best, with the streets filled with revellers. So what better place to be in the states for St. Patrick’s Day than in Boston for their 100th anniversary of the parade through South Boston. Okay, later I find out Chicago is a huge contender for the blarney stone capital, dying it’s river green and the such. But who could argue against a city when green is their chosen colors year around. Later I find out that the parade doesn’t actually take place on St. Patrick’s Day. However they do have pubs that were so popular they could charge a $50 cover just so you could say you spent St. Pattie’s Day in an Irish pub drinking Guinness. Instead of this, I walked the Heritage Trail and learned some history before wandering to the less crowded Irish section of Boston known as South Boston, or Southy to locals. Here I found a pub with out a cover charge, filled with men singing Irish ditties and an Irish dream, a red headed beauty of woman sipping on a pint of Guinness. __More>
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