The Boston Ale Party, Apr 9-12 We were fortunate with the weather for our weekend in Boston, and managed to do lots of sightseeing  -  including trips across the river to Cambridge and down the coast to Plymouth on Cape Cod Bay. Old America: Harvard Yard in Cambridge.   Trinity Church reflected in the John Hancock Tower in Boston's Copley Square.   Leaving the liquor store featured in last year's Mystic River.   Tapas at Tapeo on Newbury Street.   From our hotel room: the world HQ of L. Ron Hubbard's Christian Scientists (known as the 'Mother Church') with red-brick row houses in the foreground.   Brunch in Back Bay.   Commonwealth Avenue flanked by Back Bay mansions.   Washington Memorial in the Boston Public Gardens.   The skyline from Boston Commons.   The golden-domed State House.   Lovely residences on Beacon Hill.   Consulting the guide book for a handy beer.   Samuel Adams statue in front of Faneuil Hall built in 1742 (known as the 'Cradle of Liberty' during Revolutionary times).   Time for some Sam Adams on Union Street.   Cocktails in Whiskey Park.   The Plymouth site of the first house in America.   The rock is sunk into the ground beneath the monument.   I spy some Englishmen aboard the Mayflower replica.   Looking down towards the Atlantic Ocean.   Slight change of scene: Mike Peters of The Alarm.   At Boston's Hard Rock Café (more photos under Bands).   The Charles River separates Boston from Cambridge.