Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a week-long series profiling last-minute spring break trip ideas. Throughout the week, the destinations will get closer to Athens, for even the most last-minute planners.

Athens to Boston: 1,051 miles -— about 16 hours, 31 minutes by car.

Harvard, Fenway Park and a lot of history. Home of the Red Sox, Boston is one of the country’s oldest cities and is jampacked with things to do over spring break. 

STAY:

HI-Boston Hostel

12 Hemenway Street, Boston, MA. 0211

Phone: 617-536-9455

Rates run $27.99-$44.99 per night per person for a bed in the six-bed dorm style room and 79.99-$129.99 per night for a private room. 

EAT:

The quintessential sports bar for Red Sox fans in town is the Cask’n Flagon at 62 Brookline Ave. It’s been around forever and stands as an institution for Red Sox fans.

For an authentic Irish pub, head to the Bendan Behan, or just “The Behan,” at 378 Center St., which has been voted one of the four best beer haunts in the country by Interview Magazine. It always features live music and there is no cover charge. 

For the literati among you, check out Bukowski Tavern at 50 Dalton St., a “real dive bar” as you would expect.

And any trip to Boston isn’t complete without a tour and tasting at the Samuel Adams Brewery in Jamaican Plain.

DO:

There are a number of impressive bookstores.McIntyre and Moore, located at 1971 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge, has an extensive used collection and Revolution Books, located at 1156 Massachusetts Ave., has a selection of exclusively-Communist volumes. 

For shopping, a local consignment shop called The Garment District, located at 200 Broadway, sells clothes for $1.50 per pound. 

Friday, Saturday and Sunday starting at noon, there is a citywide scavenger hunt hosted by Cashunt, which boasts multiple games and a runtime of two and a half hours. It looks like it could be a way to both tour the city and have fun with friends at the same time.

The Elephant & Castle Restaurant is hosting a chocolate workshop that lets you watch how master chocolatiers go about their work. Afterward you get to make your own truffles.

If it’s live music you’re looking for, retro-soul singer Mayer Hawthorne will be at the Paradise Rock Club Sunday at 8 p.m. 

The Dropkick Murphys are playing from March 12 to 17 for St. Patrick’s Day at the recently renamed House of Blues.

Tip: Whether you drive or fly, once you get into the city, you should take the T. For Atlantans it is a comparatively convenient public transport system. Boston is known as an excellent walking and biking city in contrast to hilly Athens, so borrow or rent a bike during your stay to get around if you want to see the sights.