His Boston can be rediscovered on foot - and, indeed, despite being in the acclaimed land of the motor car, Boston today refers to itself as the 'Walking City'. Boston's sharp Puritan roots have been softened over the centuries, yet it retains an ethic of commitment to life as a whole, be that sports, pastimes, work, caf s, bars or culture. Boston has the typical East Coast climate of hot, humid summers and freezing winters. Modern Boston is very much a microcosm of New England. In autumn, the suburbs have white church steeples set against the turning colours of the trees.
Human vibrancy is added by the thousands of students returning to begin their new academic year.
Perhaps, after all, the city deserves to be called the 'Rome of Massachusetts', since all New England roads, physical, cultural and historical, lead to it.