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Visiting the new and the old capitol cities of Tenerife. In the 18th century, the capitol of the island of Tenerife was transferred from La Laguna, located on top of the Las Lagunetas heights, to Santa Cruz, located on the oceanside. Both cities have since grown together.

Following a recommondation by a lady in the tourist information spot, we started a hike toward the chinyero cinder cone on the slopes of the Pico del Teide. The roundtrip took us around four hours.

On Tuesday, we decided to spend a day at the beach. The place we'd originally wanted to go to, Punta de Teno, was not accessible due to road closure, so we settled in for a small beach along the route.

In the early afternoon, we arrived in our homebase, Puerto de la Cruz. In retrospective, we think this is one of the nicest towns on the island. The city center around the Plaza Charco has a vibrant life with a variety of restaurants and shopping places.

After picking up our car at the airport, we headed south, driving towards the Los Gigantes cliffs, took winding mountain roads over the hills towards Masca and then headed north.

In Boston we visited Megan, my cousin who lives in Boston with her boyfriend Tom. She gave us a tour of the downtown area. Where the Boston marathon takes place, where the rich (and famous) live: Beacon Hill, the Boston commons, the new harbor area south of Quincy market (I only remember I-95 being there and not much else), and North End, Boston's "Little Italy". We took the "T" back home, passing Fenway park. After a short break, Isabelle and me took off to the Harvard campus and walked around there for a bit.

En route to Boston, we stopped over in Portland, Maine. According to our travel guide, this place is called the "San Francisco of the East", and since we'd been to SF back in 2009, we also wanted to see this place. After a late lunch, we continued south to Boston.

Our second day took us up to Crawford Notch, from where a hiking path starts to a scenic outlook on Mount Willey. In the afternoon, we drove to Mount Washington's base cog railway station, when the weather changed rapidly and quite a bit of rain came up. We called it a day and went back to the hotel early.