#142 - #144 Winthrop, Revere and Melrose

     If you have flown out of Logan Airport, you have been over Winthrop.  Taken from Shirley St, in Winthrop, incoming flights to Logan International buzz the town on their approach to Runway 27R. Not sure what these residents do about the constant noise and vibration, but they do have amazing views of the Boston skyline and the Atlantic Ocean.  If you continue to the end of Winthrop's peninsula, you end up in Boston at Deer Island.  One of the "Harbor Island Parks" (this one still connected by land) it has free parking and walking trails that offer great city and harbor views.

Winthrop from Shirley Street

    After our walk in Winthrop, we headed north to Revere Beach.  A constant litany of planes passes overhead the wide sandy shores.

  For all of our non-New England friends, it’s pronounced Re-VEE-ah. Forget that pesky trailing ‘R’. we pahked the cah along Reveeah Beach (the first public beach in America) and walked its length to the famous Kelly’s Roast Beef, where we got a classic roast beef sandwich and a fried scallop and clam plate. It was wicked good

We ended our walks for the day by visiting Melrose, which is where I lived in the early 1970's in the first house my parents bought.  It still stands and the neighborhood was really nice, with well maintained homes and an elementary school just a short walk away.

The first house I lived in!