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Old May 31st 2011, 9:27 pm
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*Not to be confused with the Building 19⅕ which is in Natick, and the Building 19¾ which is in Norwood. (Just to pick two further examples.)
Blimey, you remembered the numbers?

Burlington is the best one of the lot for furniture though, the one in Natick for books and kids stuff...the one in Westborough or there abouts is best for scabies.

The Indian grocery stores are fantastic though and the best highlight, able to get a massive bag of bombay mix kind of snacks for a couple of bucks and there's also a superb butchers shop next door in the lot for lamb and pork.

Arhaus, the furniture shop is next door to Beans, which is lovely and also one of the best little indie childrens store is in that lot too.

Not Your Average Joes, good place to eat whilst there.

Burlington, it's really a place to hang out because you've got work or a meeting there or some other reason to endure the place such as the Christmas shopping at the mall.

There are much nicer towns within mins in either direction to live in.
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Salem is the biggest let down ever...it's a tiny, shit tourist hot spot that's at best a spring day out and there's sod all parking, no decent public transport to get there and no major roadways.
Lol, O.K you have a point - I thought it was a nice place when I went there but admittedly the witch museum I went to there was utter pants (I think most of the witch trial stuff happened in Danvers anyway). The 'House of the Seven Gables' was pretty cool though and by all accounts the Peabody Essex museum has a massive collection of Chinese stuff (I don't know for sure as I was overruled and we went to the pub instead).
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Salem is the biggest let down ever...it's a tiny, shit tourist hot spot that's at best a spring day out and there's sod all parking, no decent public transport to get there and no major roadways.

Biggest meh moment for me checking that place out
Salem grew on me a bit. It also has a MBTA train service and also a seasonal fast ferry service to Boston (nice views as it speeds along the coast). There's a few good restaurants and a Beer Works that you sit outside!
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There's a few good restaurants and a Beer Works that you sit outside!
The Beer Works is excellent. Though I discovered the Yard House in Dedham, MA... makes the beer selection of the Beer Works look positively limited
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The Beer Works is excellent. Though I discovered the Yard House in Dedham, MA... makes the beer selection of the Beer Works look positively limited
out local has 80 odd on tap of a great collection, lot of nice local cask beers too.
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out local has 80 odd on tap of a great collection, lot of nice local cask beers too.
A lot of cask beers? They're as rare as rocking horse poo - I'm jealous!
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A lot of cask beers? They're as rare as rocking horse poo - I'm jealous!
Aye, depending on season, they've got a minimum of 6 cask on tap and now it's summer, closer to 10 apparently.

They have a couple staple ones through out, but the rest seemed to be seasonal offerings from New England based breweries, MA mostly, some from VT and NH.
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Aye, depending on season, they've got a minimum of 6 cask on tap and now it's summer, closer to 10 apparently.

They have a couple staple ones through out, but the rest seemed to be seasonal offerings from New England based breweries, MA mostly, some from VT and NH.
Hmmm... sure they're cask? Not heard of a bar anywhere in America that has more than three or four - and then that's exceptional. (And I do go hunting out beer bars).

What's the name of the place? Want to look up in BeerAdvocate. I do have my shoes on just in case though...!
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Salem grew on me a bit. It also has a MBTA train service and also a seasonal fast ferry service to Boston (nice views as it speeds along the coast). There's a few good restaurants and a Beer Works that you sit outside!
Another REALLY GOOD thing in Salem is the Old Custom House. It's the best historical building/museum that I've visited in America. Nathaniel Hawthorne worked there in his day as a Customs official. (Come to think of it, the Old Custom House in St. Louis, MO is excellent too. I guess we "Old Europe" socialists are suckers for Big Government....)
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Blimey, you remembered the numbers?

Burlington is the best one of the lot for furniture though, the one in Natick for books and kids stuff...the one in Westborough or there abouts is best for scabies.
I like those stores. It really is "Good Stuff, Cheap." When we moved to Massachusetts in the seventies we outfitted our apartment there... and we still go back occasionally when we visit.
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Hmmm... sure they're cask? Not heard of a bar anywhere in America that has more than three or four - and then that's exceptional. (And I do go hunting out beer bars).
They had 6 on a couple weeks ago and said they were planning to add a few more for this weekend onwards...bit of a hike for you though
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They had 6 on a couple weeks ago and said they were planning to add a few more for this weekend onwards...bit of a hike for you though
To be honest I'm surprised there are six breweries in New England all brewing a cask version of one of their beers simultaneously!

Hmmm.... it's far, but it's not that far....!
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This thread has gone totally off topic to a discussion about beers.

I like it!

I seem to be seeing lots of nice stuff about Lexington so noseying around it at the moment.
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This thread has gone totally off topic to a discussion about beers.

I like it!
What was it originally about?
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This thread has gone totally off topic to a discussion about beers.

I like it!

I seem to be seeing lots of nice stuff about Lexington so noseying around it at the moment.
Well a decent drink becomes pretty important after a while

Lexington is a lovely town and that whole Minuteman trail is lovely, great for kids as it's a easy walk and if you're into history, a lot of the spots along the trail have historic notes like where Paul Revere was captured, where the first shots were fired etc.
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