Have you ever been to Washington DC? Designed as capital city it is full of history: memorials for presidents in different sizes and designs, war memorials, museums - all within a green mile called The Mall between Capitol and Lincoln Memorial, with the reflecting pool in front, which became world-famous when Forrest Gump entered the water to kiss his Jane!!
We stayed next door to the White House! hotwire.com makes it possible and when charing one room with four people (that makes two per supersize bed) a really good hotel gets very affordable! For breakfast a Starbucks was integrated in the ground floor with direct access from the hotels lobby.
We had a wonderful sunshiny day visiting The Mall, strolling through the streets, where you can hardly get lost, because west-east-connections are named A, B, C... street and north-south connections count 1st, 2nd, 3rd... street only some diagonal avenues carry the names of the first 13 states. Finally we arrived at Dupont Circle (according to Claudia this is where people tracked by cia normally meet to exchange information - you don't believe it? Assist some movies!!!). Well, next to Dupont Circle is my favorite bookstore: "Kramerbooks and afterwords cafe", first you find a good assortment of books (first purchase: Banker to the Poor by peace-nobel-price-winner 2006 Muhammad Yunnus, last purchase: The Maya by Michael D. Coe) later you sit down in the cosy cafe attached and have a cup of coffee!!!
After dinner, we decided to have another walk. After a while it started raining cats and dogs, we realized, that waiting under a tree for the rain to stop would not help a thing and arrived in the hotel lobby soaking wet...
We stayed next door to the White House! hotwire.com makes it possible and when charing one room with four people (that makes two per supersize bed) a really good hotel gets very affordable! For breakfast a Starbucks was integrated in the ground floor with direct access from the hotels lobby.
We had a wonderful sunshiny day visiting The Mall, strolling through the streets, where you can hardly get lost, because west-east-connections are named A, B, C... street and north-south connections count 1st, 2nd, 3rd... street only some diagonal avenues carry the names of the first 13 states. Finally we arrived at Dupont Circle (according to Claudia this is where people tracked by cia normally meet to exchange information - you don't believe it? Assist some movies!!!). Well, next to Dupont Circle is my favorite bookstore: "Kramerbooks and afterwords cafe", first you find a good assortment of books (first purchase: Banker to the Poor by peace-nobel-price-winner 2006 Muhammad Yunnus, last purchase: The Maya by Michael D. Coe) later you sit down in the cosy cafe attached and have a cup of coffee!!!
After dinner, we decided to have another walk. After a while it started raining cats and dogs, we realized, that waiting under a tree for the rain to stop would not help a thing and arrived in the hotel lobby soaking wet...
3 Kommentare:
hi cutie
good to read that every thing is fine and thanks for the nice pictures in the blog - they give a good impression.
The spring in Hamburg has just started as if the city wants to say "Hi Cathrin, see what you left behind" ;-)
Hugs and Kisses
Joschka
hey suesse, ich wuensch dir ganz viel spass in mexico city (falls du noch da bist). das mit den bildern gefaellt mir auch sehr gut, mal sehen, ob ich das in unserem block auch hinbekomme...dazu muesste ich erstmal fotos machen :-)
hab dich lieb, stefan
hallo cathrin,
tolle idee mit dem blog und den bildern! wünsche dir weiterhin alles gute und super viel spass!
liebe grüsse, arnim
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