John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

After six months living here this Saturday comes the moment to visit The JFK Library and Museum.

 I have to say that JFK is the American president which I know more of his life but after this visit I realized that I didn’t know anything about him.

The building is in a beautiful location at the waterfront. The Pavilion is the most fantastic part of the building designated by I.M. Pei, the Chinese and American architect who designed the John Hancock Tower too.

Inside the Pavilion you feel an interior indescribable peace while you enjoy the sea with Boston city at the back , your mind think about the exposition that you just have seen and you think that was really unfair that somebody could devised a plan to assassinate him and deprive the world of such genius.

As a European person I knew that JFK was a good president that everybody loved him but I didn’t know a lot of details of his life that made me admire a man that risk his life for his believes. I think that he did that a lot of things that some of the good Americans presidents thought that were correct but hadn’t got the courage to do it or even to express aloud.

His pacifist inaugural speech was something that now still being shocked after fifty years and made you wonder how would have been the world if he had had time to carry out all of his presidential goals.

I was really surprise as well with Jackie’s cultural work, with her renovation of the White House, with her way of promoting the arts and, definitely, with her way of preserve and protect America’s cultural heritage.

We had a fantastic visit guided for a fantastic member of the museum who answered to all of our questions and explained the exhibition showing a huge knowledge of JFK life.

La Bayadère – The Boston Opera House

At Friday night I attended La Bayadere, after a lot of Operas, here it comes the moment for our first Ballet. We went with a friend who studied ballet and recommended to us attend to this one.

I used to see ballet on television and usually I was doing something else at the same time but this time was to be different. I was to be concentrate at one hundred per cent.

The Boston Opera House is beautiful and big, you don’t know how big it is until you walk in through the little entrance door at Washington Street. While we’re waiting for our friend at the door we saw a lot of dancers coming to the performance you can realized that for their way of walking.

I have to say that the public was very disrespectful with the orchestra and they interrupt all the time clapping when a new dancer came to the stage. The most embarrassing moment was when at the second scene at the first act the public began to talk while the orchestra was playing the Ludwig Minkus music and they carried on talking as they were at the living room of their houses. It was unbelievable how every moment the people made comments all the time I’ve never seen this behavior neither at the school festival.

The story of the Bayadère (The Temple Dancer) is about the love between Nikita and the warrior Solor. Both of them promise each other eternal love dancing on a fire ceremony at India. Like opera this love is going to be impossible and both are going to suffer and as the opera somebody is going to die, in this case Nikita, The Bayadère. The principal dancers Misa Kuranaga and James Whiteside were fantastic with a really good technique on my friend words and the corps the ballet as well. It was a pleasure saw them dance although in my case I missed a soprano or tenor singing the story, but I went to The Ballet not to the Opera.

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Westport Rivers Vineyard and Winery

Saturday morning and it wasn’t raining and much better you could see blue patches on the sky. We took our Wine & Cheese Trail Guide and we were ready to taste local wines and sparkling wines. We thought that with our guide and our GPS we were able to find all the vineyards, but wasn’t easy, next time I’ll check all the web pages to ensure the localization. Since the countryside is full of color we didn't mind get lost. Beside of our fail to find some places we had a lovely wine taste at Westport Rivers , a vineyard that we didn’t chose to visit but went we saw the sign at the road we decided to go in.

The first thing that you see when you follow the road is an old truck, a Ford truck getting older with the time, the next thing is a house guarded for a bug tree, and the barn or brewery on your right. We came in the house and walked around seeing the shop the bar area and the art the exposition on the second floor. We took a tour with a very pleasant girl who explained to us all the wine process from pick up the grape to label the final bottle.

Inside the barn you can see how the bottles are placing waiting the correct time to be labeled and being ready to chair celebrations, couple dinners, special occasions and to everyone who likes a glass of wine without another desire to taste a good wine.

We returned inside the house and began our wine tasting. The entire group from the tour placed round the tasting bar ready to taste the wines come from the vineyard that  had just been visited. All the time you are surrounding by a familiar ambiance that make you feel very comfortable. We taste 8 wines, with their respective explanations and recommendations.

My favorite wine was The Pineau de Pinot one, a dessert wine full of flavor, they use distillation and fermentation to create this wine, is a caramel color wine with fruity touch when you drink it.

We only had time to visit this vineyard but we are already thinking to visit some more with shop on a nearest time.