New Bedford

One of the highest concentrations of Portuguese Americans in the country. hm.

I live here and its a beautiful city to be in..Lots of wonderful places to eat, culture and of course the gorgeous water front and beaches..New Bedford is worth visiting!!

Take a day off from my study and hit south to this historical place, which is one hour driving from Boston.

Parked my car after I saw the building, which I thought should be visitor center. Actually it is city hall and a man asked me if I need help when I was walking away. After heard I was looking for victor center, he directed me the building and invited me to go inside the city hall, and told me that he is the mayor, Scott W. Lang, a lawyer as well.

It is such a pleasure to talk with him while he introduced me the city hall, including his office and the oldest elevator in the United States. And I was pretty shy when his fellows gave me an interview about my travelling experience in the US, I am not good to dealing this kind of stuff and I had the same experience when I was in Koeln, a reporter interviewed me about how did I think about their Prime Minister Schoder.

I was totally released after I left the city hall. The visitor center is quite small and of course I stamp on my national park passport. The grandma lady is very nice and told me all the detail about the places I should go.

Anyway, it’s such a nice trip. unfortunately it is cloudy which is not the best time for shooting landscape, but I had a very good time.

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Next week, Cape Cod to go.

I grew up in New Bedford, and I’ve lived here most of my life. A lot of people will be quick to point out everything wrong with the city, especially locals, but people seem to forget just how much this little city has to offer. If you are like Art, New England history, and classic New England Architecture, the city’s got a lot to offer. Especially, if you’re already planning on visiting Cape Cod or the Islands, New Bedford’s already on your way.

This is the city in which I was born. Unfortunately the last time I visited the city still seemed as if it was living in the 80’s-early 90’s… the drug problems were bad… and kids far too young were doing things not even I would have been doing… (and I did a lot as a young kid)... One thing is that it is a beautiful state, plain and simple… it is.