November 9th 2024: Churrascaria Tropeiro's Grill, Worcester

Today for dinner, I decided to check out the new Brazilian restaurant in Worcester that has taken the place of Terra Brasilis, Churrascaria Tropeiro's Grill. 

This place has another location in Dartmouth. Really nice inside.

The buffet was excellent with interesting stuff like grilled cheese with honey.

Definitely will be back again someday.

November 2nd 2024: Randomness in Boxborough, Littleton and Worcester

 After spending some time at the Nashoba Valley ISI Skating School in Boxborough,

we decided to grab a bite from Oscar's Burritos Mexican Restaurant nearby,

getting the Hot Dog Quesadilla (a crispy 10" flour tortilla, with melted cheddar cheese, sliced hot dog, rice and beans)

and the Chicken Tortilla Soup.

Nothing special unfortunately.

From here, we decided to go for a hike at Newtown Hill in Littleton, this time going to look for the marsh pond here, by taking the path shown below in pink.

The map above is slightly off in terms of where the trails are, with our path actually being on the yellow and blue trails to get to the marsh pond. Decent views here though.

Of course, while here you just have to go up to the water tower for the view from there.

From here, we headed to dinner at Mint Kitchen and Bar in Worcester, getting the Hanoi Sticky Rice (chinese sausage, egg, dried shrimp, BBQ pork, served with sticky rice),

the Pho Tai, Bo Vien (beef noodle soup with rare eye round beef, meatballs)

and the Bun Bo Hue (spicy beef broth, thick noodles, sliced beef, cha lua, spare rib served with chili sate).

The food was not bad, although the noodles for the Bun Bo Hue were soggy. Oh well.

Recommended Places to Visit: Boxborough

Recreation
Water Bodies
Cisco

500 Beaver Brook Road

Flagg Hill Pond
Windermere Road near Flagg Hill Road

Ice Skating

Nashoba Valley ISI Skating School
34 Massachusetts Avenue

Parks

Flerra Meadows
Stow Road near Chester Road

Hiking

Tried:

Steele Farm

Middle Road near Hill Road

Beaver Valley Preserve

End of Swanson Road

Flagg Hill Conservation Area

Windermere Road, 42.468318, -71.502520

Architecture 

Places of Worship
United Church of Christ
723 Massachusetts Avenue


Town Facilities

Town Hall
29 Middle Road

Restaurants 

Tried:

Latin American
Oscar's Burritos Mexican Restaurant
34 Massachusetts Avenue

Recommended Dishes:

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Hot Dog Quesadilla