Ten reasons to give thanks for Thanksgiving

Thursday is Thanksgiving. As Anne Hodgson points out in this week's vocabulary exercise, Let's talk turkey! Food at Thanksgiving, the great American holiday dates all the way back to a party in 1621 during which 53 English settlers and 90 Native Americans held a three-day feast at the Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts.

What was once Plimoth is now the modern town of Plymouth, and the "first Thanksgiving", which gave thanks to God, has since become a secular holiday. To celebrate it, we're going to Massachusetts and its capital, Boston. Our guide is the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism site. With its help, we've picked ten things to see and do. Let's go!

1. Boston is rightly famous for its seafood. One of the people who have done most to transform the city's cuisine in recent times is Barbara Lynch. B&G Oysters is a cosy bar in South End, a historic quarter filled with Victorian houses. There, Lynch combines classics like New England clam chowder with Austrian Grüner Veltliner white wine.