Part of our accomodation difficulties in Boston could be ascribed to a slight misconception on the part of Isabelle. The fact that Harvard has been described as the American version of Cambridge was perhaps the one fact known she was aware of. The city fathers had gone as far as to actively encourage this belief by renaming that part of the town as Cambridge, that is Cambridge Massachusetts...
As Isabelle had spent several years in Cambridge, England, she fondly imagined a similarly quaint setting. As the skyline of downtown Boston appeared above six or eight lanes of traffic I nudged her awake on the bus to draw her attention to this fact. "Look! There's Boston now". Her astonishment was understandable when she beheld a sight roughly equivalent to Manhattan Island.
How different her perception might have been as last night, safely back in Montreal, we viewed the latest work of Martin Scorcese "The Departed"... A tale of police corruption and internecine Irish Italian gangland violence set against the gritty urban backdrop of... Boston, Massachusetts.
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