New York, New York

But first lets do Boston… My visit to Boston involved a pretty busy working week – not helped by the fact that Red Hat’s offices aren’t actually in Boston – instead we’ve an hour’s drive north to Westford. Still we managed to sample a number of bars in the evenings, enabling Herr Stein to have the inspired thought of decamping to New York for the weekend.

And so come Friday afternoon, we packed in work early and headed out of town on the Mass. Turnpike bound for New York. Having stopped for a few hours on the way down, we finally got into Manhatten around 1-ish. The daytime on Saturday was assigned to ‘seeing the sights’ – in the space of 6 hours or so, I managed to take in the Cooper Hewitt, Metopolitan Museum and of course Empire State Building. But it was the nightlife that we really came down for, so come the end of the afternoon, it was back to Herr Stein’s for a quick change of clothing. Things started off gently with a mexican & a few cocktails, but when we met up with Laura & ‘the girls’ who were out for a bachelorette party (aka Hen night) things started to liven up. NB, walking into a room of 15 drunk girls on a Bachelorette party at a Karaoke bar can be a traumatic experiance! Thankfully I survived, and shortly after carried on with our tour of Manhatten bars, ending up at a nice place somewhere in the East Village called ‘The Thirsty Scholar’.