Visiting Salem, Massachusetts
Last Saturday Alli, Will, Jocelyn and I drove over to Salem,
Massachusetts, home of various witch museums and related attractions.
Salem is fairly famous, around the northeast united states at least,
as the place where the witch trials took place in 1692, and where
serious Halloween partying takes place now.
However, I think Salem is too crowded on Halloween itself. I don't
mind crowds usually, but getting there and back is a serious
inconvenience. So we went on a beautiful Saturday, when the weather
was perfect for walking around, and tourists were not going to be too
plentiful.
We had a great time: the central part of the town, where most of the
attractions are located, is beautiful. It's clean and wide with many
brick paths and little pocket parks. The trolley tour was excellent,
both informative and amusing thanks to our funny driver. The Salem
Witch Museum was OK, not particularly captivating and pretty shallow,
but not bad. We missed out on the Peabody Essex Museum, which closes
at 5pm for some strange reason.
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