Any trip to Cambridge isn't complete without a proper stroll through storied Harvard Square - it's too historic, too beautiful, too simply fun to resist. You can walk through the Yard and absorb every inch of ivy-leagued glory on your own, but a proper tour can be ever-more-rich icing on the cake. Bring a knapsack, because you're never a tweed's throw away from a bookseller: Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Harvard Book Store (to name but a few). Lest it all seem too cerebral, there are small pleasures aplenty, from crowd-drawing contortionists, to limited runs at the arthouse-iest arthouse theaters, to amazing hot pizza slices to go or cozy, inviting gathering spots to sit for awhile.
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