Two Meeting Street Inn
Travel Blogs from Charleston
At the beginning of the red-blue state divide
Well Hing Ta was pretty good but the Manager/waiter was delightful. He told us that he always enjoyed going to Philly's Chinatown better than NYC.
Today after a meager breakfast, we left for Charleston, South Carolina, arriving 4 hrs later.
We are enjoying listening to The Racketeer by John Grisham as we drive.
In town we did a lot of walking, down King St ," South ...
Sun (at last), plantations and old syle colonial
... by 40 minutes or so and lo we landed in Sunny Charleston.
Actually in the morning Charleston turned out to be sunny, and cold...but warmed up pretty quickly. We drove into town, parked at the visitor centre (pretty well set up for visitors this place) and then proceeded to walk through the town up and down back and forth admiring the antebellum architecture and the genteel feel of the place (though arguably a bit over-precious in the oldest best-preserved ...
The USS Yorktown and Memories of Swamp Boobies
... us, and we saw very few animals and wildlife because, unlike us, they had enough smarts to successfully seek refuge from the weather. We did learn from our nature guide that Spanish moss is not even a kind of moss and is instead closely related to the pineapple family. Who in the heck knew that?!?
While on the tour, we learned that the exact same nature swamp we were visiting had previously served as the location for filming the 1982 low-budget, horror ...
The Queen of Charleston
... at 82 Queen is exquisitely designed and the discerning palette will not be disappointed. My second trip to the Queen was equally as mesmerizing as my first. The twinkling lights wrapping the tree trunks and limbs were a magical accoutrement to an entrée of the most delicious crab cakes I have ever tasted. And I consider myself a crab cake aficionado. Made with the finest locally harvested crabmeat, gourmet breadcrumbs, ...
Fort Sumter
2nd Oct.
Got up nice and early this morning around 7.15pm, had breakfast and got on the road to Charleston. We stopped in on the Visitor Centre, then drove down to the Fort Sumter Tours ferry. We managed to park up for free (as the tour company's car park charged $5) at a local park opposite the ferry and then walked around the Cold ...
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Amenities
- Free parking