The free tour is definitely worth going on. It’s by one of the students so they have a really good understanding of the place as it is today as well as all the obligatory history they’ve been taught to tell you, a lot of which I do seem to remember, which is a good sign he did a decent job.

Bit of a walk from central Boston (especially in high heeled boots!) but other than that was much nicer to walk it than get the tube.

Not technically in Boston, but I figured it’s close enough (Cambridge MA doesn’t appear in the Qype database).

Harvard University - quite a famous name. The site is what you’d expect, beautiful, not short of a few bob, and full of students. If you turn up at one of the alloted times you can get a free guided tour around the site, which was excellent on the day we were there.

There isn’t much else to do on the campus other than “look” though, which is a bit of a shame. I guess they’d just get overrun with tourists though if there was much else to do.

Once you leave campus there’s plenty of stuff to do (well plenty of shops and places to eat anyway).