Capitol Hill Washington DC

I arrived in Washington DC this morning after a three and a half hour train journey from New York. As soon as I arrived I dropped my bags of at the The Jefferson Hotel and headed straight to the Washington DC monument, it is the world's tallest stone structure, standing at 169.294m. It shaped like an egyptian style obelisk. The statue was built in …

Thought I would keep with tradition and set the alarm early on a Monday morning to embark on a trip to the National Capital of the country I was in - this time for a change Washington D.C. On the subway at 6am (armed with coffee and a bagel) I headed up to Grand Central to meet the day tour bus. We set off on the 4 hour trip and escaped Manhattan …

We left our hotel at 6.45am on the 27th of Jan to get to park avenue to start a bus tour of Washington DC. this was a bit of a struggle since our Australia day festivities didn't wrap up until after 3.30am. We arrived in Washington at around 12 after a quick stop off in Delaware. First we headed to the Lincoln memorial which is a marble and …

Hanks Oyster Bar for lunch …

I was up at the crack of dawn, I had to shower, dress and take a taxi over to the Omni Shoreham and arrived by 7:00 am where our group was then taken by charter bus over to Capitol Hill. Our group of around 230 made our way to the South entrance of the Capitol and into the Legislative briefing which consisted of a barrage of Congressmen and women …

Vandaag een drukke dag. We staan op tijd op omdat we, ook al vooraf in Nederland, een tour door het Capitool geboekt hebben. Weer met de taxi er naar toe, wat gaat dat snel. Het weer is mooi, zonnig en warm dus blauwe lucht, altijd leuk voor foto's. De tour valt iets tegen, je ziet maar een paar zalen en de gids praat amerikaans op een frans tempo …

Nach einer 24stuendigen Busfahrt mit dem Greyhoundbus sind wir gut in Washington D.C., der Hauptstadt von den USA angekommen.
Hier gibt es wirklich so einiges zu sehen. Vom weissen Haus (zu dem man uebrigens nicht naeher als 50 Meter hin kommt), ueber das Kapitol, bishin zu der bekannten Washington Mall mit etlichen Denkmaelern und natuerlich …

We managed to cram quite a bit into our short time here in DC. We were down to our last few items to clean off our list.

We left around 9:45 to head over to the National Archives. As I mentioned, we just watched National Treasure (which the kids loved), so they were primed to see the Declaration of Independence, and hopefully the treasure …

arrive in Washington first surprise at 7pm there is a bus every hour only from the airport : Seriously ?
I mean it is a big city I expected a bus at least every 20 minutes but ..... welcome to USA

Despite the ****** weather and a silly bus system DC is a nice city people are really friendly especially bus driver i missed my stop and …

It was a crisp morning when we left Maria's home for our DC tour. Maria had an early morning class so she was kind enough to drop us off at our starting point. It was sad saying goodbye to her as we didn’t know when we would see her again.

We didn’t realise it until we got there, that this particular tour was starting in …

... huge International spy museum which was pretty busy and we had to pretend to be various undercover agents.  Then onto Union Station, Capitol Hill all very empty and eery.  Really wished we could get access to the tv series West Wing to complete ...

... yards to our hotel which was very swanky and I thanked my lucky stars for not dorm'ing it. The hotel itself was brillint, overlooking Capitol Hill and had a rack rate of $200 - about 150 pounds so were quite please to be just spending $60 (40pound). I ...

... so that was a relief. We got to the hostel finally and went straight out to do some sight seeing. We went to Capitol hill, where the Congress Library, Supreme Court and Capitol building are. We then walked down The Mall to Washington Monument - a ...

... know what I am talking about.  In a nutshell, the South’s General Robert Lee gambled on a push beyond Washington into tight northern territory.  He was on a roll after campaigns in Manassas and Charlottesville and Anteidem…why stop ...

28/04/05 Arrived in Washington DC after a 4 and half hour coach journey. The hostel we had was gross, dirty bathroom and stuff, but nevermind! We made the most of visiting all the sites... The White House, - George Bush was even here today as there ...

... one of the most powerful cities in the world. We waited till 9.30am to set off because it's quite expensive to travel around Washington DC, a $9 travel card and we were set. We headed out to the Pentagon first and as you would expect we weren’t ...

... had to check out of that room, but then was told we couldnt check back into our other room till 2pm!! Not a great start to Washington DC!! Anyway, once we were dressed and showered we then took a walk down to the White House, which I had expected to be ...

... take a taxi over to the Omni Shoreham and arrived by 7:00 am where our group was then taken by charter bus over to Capitol Hill. Our group of around 230 made our way to the South entrance of the Capitol and into the Legislative briefing which consisted ...

... the monuments today, saw the White House (from a distance, you're not allowed to get anywhere near it since 9/11), Capitol Hill, the Washington Monument and some of the War Memorials.  Also went to the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian where ...

... the grounds, amazed at the number of men and women represented, and took a detour to visit John F Kennedy's memorial and eternal flame. Capitol Hill was the last stop of the day before walking back by the northern (rear) side of the White House to ge a ...