Washington DC

Washington The Countries Capital city and I certainly Thought it lived up to my preconceptions. Although I was shocked by the amount of poverty we saw on the streets of New York and even more so on the journey through New Yorks suburbs. Then as you enter Washington you see the massive divide between the poor and the rich in America.

01. One of Washingtons great train stations

We booked up our nights stay in washington whilst still in New York and unfortunately made the error of booking a hotel in washington Maryland not Washington DC. This is about a twenty mile mistake, so we had quite a journey with our massive Rucksacks. Luckily Washington has one of the best public transport networks I've come across and the journey was pain free, reasonably quick and best of all extremly in expensive. Stayed at the Howard Johnson Hotel it was good and had a pool but we didn't arrive until about 10:30 so just ordered pizza and watched some 'Futurama' on the telly.

02. Dave and Suzy outside The White House

The following day we headed in to DC left our bags at the Train station and got a cab through the city to see the White House, Reflecting pool and the Lincoln memorial it was a bit of a rush to cram so much in such a short time but it was a really lovely experience only marred slightly by the fact that we got to the reflecting pool and it was empty as they were cleaning it. Still we had a good chat with one of the workers who explained why they were putting bales of hey with blocks of concrete on them all the way down the pool. Apparently it's an enviromentaly friendly way of cutting down the algae that forms in the water, as the chemicals they had been using were killing the fish out in the river.

03. The White House

04. Us at The Lincoln Memorial.

05. The Declaration of Independence