Tuesday 15th July - JFK Library

A new city and a new public transport system to navigate - today we made our way via two trains and a shuttle bus to the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.  This housed an amazing collection of memorabilia and  documentation from his childhood, right through the beginning of his political career, his Presidential Campaign and leadership as President.  It also had rooms dedicated to his family life, both as a child and with Jackie and his children.  It was well worth the visit - surprisingly uncrowded and really interesting - another venue that's made me want to get home and study up on JFK's story as there's so much more I'd like to know.  As a reference to his love of sailing and the ocean, the museum was built beside the water with his sailing boat displayed outside during summer - a spectacular location viewed from a beautiful glass atrium.

The rest of the afternoon was dedicated to finishing shopping, packing and then enjoying a night out for dinner.  Damian and I had our last USA date night. I've been following a show for a long time now called "Top Chef" - a US show a bit like Masterchef, but competition is between professional chefs. One of the regular guests and judges on the show, Chef Barbara Lynch, has 6 restaurants in Boston, and I was very keen to try one.  We got into "Menton" and had a spectucular meal - 4 course taster menu (each course gave you 4 choices), and each was superb.  After the meal we were invited to the back of house for a kitchen tour.  We were really impressed with that - we met Scott Jones (head chef of Menton) who gave us a great insight into what they do.  It was an enormous kitchen, but even more impressive was the whole floor below being dedicated to a food preparation area for that restaurant and it's neighbouring one.  The service was amazing - even down to them calling us this morning to see if we'd enjoyed our evening - nice touch! 

"Spectacularly good lobster" - quote from Damian Power. 

Kitchen tour!