Day 12 : Last day in Cape Cod

Today we enjoyed another lazy day in Hyannis, taking the opportunity to use the hostel's free internet to research and book some of our holiday in Fiji and sort out a few loose ends at home. It's been another warm day so we sauntered down to the beach in the afternoon to read and swim, although the latter was cut short by a rather close encounter with a pair of crabs!

It is the Friday night of a bank holiday (Independence day) here, and people seem to be swarming to Hyannis for the weekend - we're going to try and find a spot to have a quiet drink around the harbourside as it's our last night here. Tomorrow we're off on a relatively short coach journey to Boston (90 minutes) and the comparative luxury of the Marriott in Cambridge. We're staying in 3 different Marriotts over the holiday weekend and undoubtedly they will charge an extortionate fee for internet access, so I expect we won't have a chance to update the blog until Tuesday when we're going to stay with my university friend Kieran in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (about an hour north of Boston).