Here are my wise words which you must take with you if you ever visit Boston - you MUST get the ferry and go over to Salem! It is very quaint and they totally love their witch history but who can blame them! After a sound sleep in our lovely four poster bed, we went on the hunt for some witches. We started off at the Witch Dungeon Museum where they reenact a witch trial from the 16 hundreds. We sat in an old court room and were told the story of a woman who was accused of witchcraft which was pretty cool. They then take you down into the dungeon to show you the conditions that those accused would have stayed in. It's safe to say they were very small, dark, damp and creepy! Paige was not a fan of being in the dungeons....but she did touch a big piece of wood which is said to bring you luck if you touch it. It was part of the original court house back in the day. Anywho, they had all these manikins that set the scene for how the accused would have lived (one guy was being pressed to death by stones as he would not confess to being a witch) and the last scene was a load of people hanging from the ceiling! Just what one wants to see at 11am!! The second witch museum we went to told of the story of the first woman accused of witchcraft and they had laid out 15 scenes of the story (with the same creepy manikins!). I won't spoil the story for you so you'll have to go and check it out for yourself. The last museum on our tour was the Pirate Museum! Now, we had no idea that Salem was famous for pirates but the museum has assured me that they are! The tour guide we had was hilarious (and looked very much like a pirate) and told us some great gruesome tales! Paige then dressed as a pirate as she was feeling all mischievous after too much grog and we headed back over to Boston to check into another hostel. But to sum up, Salem is awesome and well worth a visit!
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