Embassy Row Washington DC

I woke up today thinking of our Meyer lemon tree planted in a pot on our pool deck. For the last six months, we've been watching its blooms develop into tiny lemons and now many have grown to the size of a small orange. They’re still green though. I had the urge to take photos today and will again when we return. And each time we depart and …

We got up at 7 a.m. packed our bags, had a cup of coffee in the balcony and headed for the bus station. We said goodbye to the busy streets of NY and headed for Washington. The trip took 4 hours so we used this time for catching g up on editing pictures and writing the blog.

We got to the station at around 2 o'clock so we had 4 hours of …

... to bike there on my way to work the very next morning.  The Haitian Embassy is on Embassy Row. I had only visited a couple of Embassies in DC, but still, I wondered how Haiti had ended up with such a sweet location. Who paid the ...

... something to do with the federal government and there are cops everywhere! The area we were staying in was only a few blocks from embassy row, but it was also right beside an up and coming neighbourhood with lots of restaurants, bars and cafes and also a ...

... a few.  Appropriate there is such an international cornucopia of dining options, as we were just around the corner from Embassy Row.  It was fun to casually stroll up and down the tree lined streets, with narrow and vertical brownstones ...

... DC after Mandy gave me some trouble getting me where I needed to be. I was headed to the BRAND NEW SGI Washington D.C. Culture Center on embassy row. There was a big scale youth meeting going on and by the beginning of the week I had determined that I'd ...

This morning we got up mice and early and went for a run through Washington DC to Dupont Circle and Embassy Row. After a good breakfast we visited the Museum of the American Indian which gave a a great insight into the indigenous people of this country ...

... NY, who had tour guides that offered a different dimension. We saw Dupont Circle, the National Cathedral which was a magnificent building, Embassy Row (170 of them), and Georgetown, very lovely. We went over the bridge to the Arlington Cemetery and the ...

Monday, Columbus Day, we went to Dupont Circle to meet up with a tour of Embassy Row. Mary Anne, of Washington Walks, took us on a wonderful tour, showing us the "party palaces" of the rich industrialists built to entertain during the season Congress was ...

... green line to red at Chinatown then onto Dupont Circle to walk to our hotel. Our hotel was about a 10 minute walk down Embassy row. We enjoyed the walk and reading the signs of the different embassies. We separted from three in our group and checked ...

... BA strike action.Potentially a big impact on our proposed return date on the final day of our visa.Took a walk down Embassy Row and took advice from the British Consulate.Fascinating viewing each embassy along the way.Japan looks like a water ...

... Miami and Vero Beach respectively, my aunts and grandparents to Kansas City. My bro and my dad stayed, but my grandparents and I flew to Washington DC to meet family and so I could see what DC was like. I really like DC a lot. I could potentially live ...