Today Jonas and I went to take care of things like getting a CharlieCard to use for public transportation and getting a prepaid mobile subscription, so we are not in an Internet-void every time we move outside of the house. Actually we agreed when and where to meet up, but when we had left our apartments, we had no way of contacting each other.

We met at Harvard Square north of the Charles River and went to a T-Mobile to learn about mobile subscriptions. Compared to Danish subscriptions prices here are ridiculously high. I might make post about subscriptions later on. We didn’t buy any subscription as we found out the best fit for us probably is a subscription only available at Walmart stores – and the nearest Walmart was about 20 miles away (that’s like 32 km!).

We bought a CharlieCard (might also do a post about public transportation later(EDIT: it’s here)), which is somewhat like a Danish rejsekort, but not personal. We bought a week pass, allowing us to travel unlimited with the T and all local busses.

We also walked around Cambridge in the nice (but cold!) weather, sightseeing a bit of Boston:

A newspaper shop at Harvard Square.

The book store / café on Harvard Campus.

Boston skyline as seen from Kendall/MIT.

Panorama skyline! (Click for larger version)