Comments on: PT Travel Linkfest 01.21.2008 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2008/01/21/pt-travel-linkfest-01212008/ Travel stories, world music, travel books, and a close peek at unique destinations. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:01:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Antonia Malchik http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2008/01/21/pt-travel-linkfest-01212008/#comment-23503 Antonia Malchik Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:02:33 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2008/01/21/pt-travel-linkfest-01212008/#comment-23503 As a Boston curmudgeon, I disagree with the <i>Times's</i> listing of Beantown as a place that does winter properly--winter grumpiness, maybe! After living there for two years, I decided that the famous Boston rudeness must have something to do with the wet, icy, windy winters. The kids might enjoy skating on the Frog Pond in the Commons, but nobody else seems to enjoy anything but whingeing. Okay, okay, generalizations. Glad to see St. Petersburg made the list, though. The author's right in listing it as one of the most physically beautiful winter spots. A bright, snow-covered, icy day in Peter makes you think of ethereal Slavic women in fur hats, and Anna Karenina. As a Boston curmudgeon, I disagree with the Times’s listing of Beantown as a place that does winter properly–winter grumpiness, maybe! After living there for two years, I decided that the famous Boston rudeness must have something to do with the wet, icy, windy winters. The kids might enjoy skating on the Frog Pond in the Commons, but nobody else seems to enjoy anything but whingeing.

Okay, okay, generalizations. Glad to see St. Petersburg made the list, though. The author’s right in listing it as one of the most physically beautiful winter spots. A bright, snow-covered, icy day in Peter makes you think of ethereal Slavic women in fur hats, and Anna Karenina.

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