It is well worthwhile while staying at The Inn in Hastings Park to beg, borrow or steal bicycles. There seem to be more green-painted cycle roads around here than anywhere else in USA. You can certainly go all the seven miles to Harvard from Lexington.

Four Seasons One Dalton is the Boston hotel that makes you feel young again, or still young. Although this is a business hangout, the ambiance at its signature Zuma restaurant is 20s achievers and 20s heirs, kids who might be studying at Harvard, but thanks to daddy, have enough money to hang out here every night.