Hi,
After yesterday we were both pleased to have a good nights sleep even though our neighbours again woke us at 6.15am. Bless them. We staggered up to Starbucks for our now routine breakfast and then after a discussion caught a train from North Station to Salem. What a fascinating place. I loved the residential areas - very very pretty and we now have a sense of what the famous "fall" looks like, the leaves fluttered down around us as we walked on bricked sidewalks surrounded by these huge shuttered houses. Stunning. However, we then stumbled across the 'mall' and it was so commercialised that we couldn't wait to leave. We'd checked the guide book for a recommendation for lunch and found Red's the sandwich store. Say sandwich to me and I conjure up ciabatta, rye, pumpernickel, soda, wholewheat and other varieties of bread and a huge selection of fillings, mozzarella, pesto, hams etc. I did not imagine, deep fried eggs (any which way) Hovis style bread, chunks of potato fried within an inch of its life and tomato ketchup. Hey ho. Jon had a lovely meal and I bought freshly made spicy tomato soup on the way back to the station. We concluded the day by finishing the remainder of the trolley bus tour we hadn't done yesterday and got off at the Christian Science Headquarters which is stunning.
Found, better late than never, the Whole Foods shop and finally managed to buy some fresh salad stuff and fruit. First apple for almost a week. Anyway we ended up in the public park having a competition to see who could take the best picture of the bronze duck sculpture given to the park by one of the presidents wives. It is only one of two sculpture based on a children's book. The other is in Gorky park in Moscow. We will see the photos when we get home.
Last full day tomorrow, sadly so I think we will go to the Boston Library and take it from there.
Jane
No comments:
Post a Comment