My first tip for a trip to Boston, if you are flying in, get a window seat. Jigsaw pieces of water fit together with land forms, and the city itself emerges like a kingdom on a map from Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones. We circled Logan International once, the runways on this peninsula of land looking impossibly short, the water surrounding it filled with white swipes of paint...the sailboats and yachts of Boston Harbor all coming in at the end of the day. It was an uneventful landing, and soon I was cabbing through tunnels to my hotel in the Back Bay of Boston, the Taj.