White House Washington DC

Entry containing 24 photos titled: Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Capitol, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, White House, Jefferson Memorial, National Air and Space Museum

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 …

Had aimed to get up a bit early today to go and try and go up the Washington Monument but we were still tired and Michelle's eyes were still really bad so we slept in a little more. Got up around 9 and met Emma in Starbucks so we all went together for a walk down to the monument via the white house then up to the Lincoln Memorial. I was really …

Entry containing 25 photos titled: Vietnam Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Washington Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, US Capital, White House

Hey yall. Just a quick update of Washington as we are in Miami *****es and cant really be bothered writing too much. Too much beer to be consumed and swimming in the sun to be done.

Day 1

We arrived in Washington from our 4 ½ hour bus trip from NYC where we stayed in Manhattan the night before. Again a bloody heat wave! Record …

All along we've been checking the forecast for our trip and Wednesday, Oct 26th was supposed to be a partly sunny day with temperatures in the low 70s. During my morning run in Alexandria, the weather was beautiful and it was shaping up to be a relatively warm Fall day in the metro DC area. So we embarked on our walking tour of DC lightly dressed …

First off – how many people reading this know what DC stands for? Took me a couple of days walking past buildings saying District of Columbia to realise J

We stayed at the most amazing B&B, Mount Vernon Square B&B (in the district of Mount Vernon Square, not at Mount Vernon Square – as we realised after carrying 50kg of …

I returned to Washington, D.C. for a week in March 2012. I decided to take the time to actually go and see some of the sights. I worked in this city for so many years, but I never took the time to appreciate what a great city, Washington, D.C. really is. I know that Washington, D.C. is the most beautiful city from the air …

We had pretty much planned our trip up until New York after that we were heading onto Canada and our good friends Abo (Bau, Brown Bear, Catkins, Chris) and Mel's place in Toronto until we flew out later in the month. Given we had some time up our sleeves we decided to pull a shifty detour south west 4 hours to Washington DC….home to America&# …

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 …

... Congress. This stately granite building was erected before war with the British so unsurprisingly it was razed when they invaded Washington DC. Unsurprisingly again it was reconstructed with an even more grandiose tower.  A symbol of the great new ...

... poetic. Jefferson is the shy brother to Lincoln.  Little fanfare surrounds the third President despite his position facing the White House and his ultimate contribution to America - The Declaration. So after this bike ride and now out of mental, ...

... or vocabulary to understand or appreciate it at all. Dejected, I set off to see the front of the White House (having only mistakenly seen the back).  Washington smiled upon me. Not only was the Sun in her full display of warmth, the St Patrick's ...

... I can't be too unkind to him.  After a brief catch up we went for a walk and saw the White house, Reflecting pool, Lincoln, Washington Monument, Korean and WWII memorials.  All very impressively lit up at night.  Really couldn't believe we ...

... it hard for the general non-terrorist public to look at things after September 11 these days.  We did look in the White House information building which had photos of the interior then headed over to some of the monuments.  We saw the ...

... and I headed to L'efant Plaza, right near the central mall area. I did the whole tourist thing, The Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln memorial, White House, Jeffeson etc etc. The day was blazing hot, but clever Hodge took a mac and the mother of ...

... By this time I felt simply terrible but I trudged on through the sites and museums.  Seeing the White House and the Mall and the Tomb of the Unknown Solider were pretty sweet but they would have been alot better ...

... (or what's left of it), and some very old books that survived the fire of 1814 when the British decided to set fire to Washington DC's expansive library. By far the most impressive, however, was the grand reading room. As soon as you enter, you're hit ...

Hi guys, Well we left New York on Thursday morning and headed to Washington DC. We hired a car and drove through New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware to get to the Nation's capital. As we only had a day and a half to do our exploring we packed every ...

... .  We planned on just walking around the hotel a bit, and a few hours later…we find ourselves all the way down at the White House.  We walked the whole mall and didn’t even know it!  Sun sets in the summer way up here past 9 so ...