Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C.

This will be a post of few words and many pictures as we’ve no time to write much and the place we’re staying tonight has no phone, no TV and possibly no wi-fi.

So - the first set of photos is all from last Friday (15th April). First you can see the place we stayed in Delaware when we got off the Cape May-Lewes ferry – a little resort called Dewey Beach (just south of Lewes and Reheboth Beach). Everywhere was a little sleepy and very much getting ready for the start of the season (which gets going at Easter for some, on Memorial Day/last Monday in May for others). We had dinner by the sea on the Thursday night, then a quiet breakfast and a little nosey about before setting off towards Maryland, entering that state, crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (long bridge!) and calling into Annapolis for an afternoon’s wandering round (it’s a place that’s small, pretty, and full of money and sailors – well, a naval academy). Then we set off for Washington D.C. (and luckily the traffic shown in the last photo was going in the opposite direction to us).

We then spent the weekend in Washington. Day one was wet (very wet) but luckily there’s lots to do in that city in the rain so we took a trolley tour of the centre and then called into (a) the National Museum of the American Indian (the building with all the curves) and (b) the crazily busy Air & Space Museum next door. After dinner Mark went out to get some night-time photos of the city too. It rained again. Here are day one’s photos:

Day two was the complete opposite weatherwise – bright and sunny – so we walked around the White House, popped into its gift shop (silly photo ops), went to the Madame Tussauds (special US presidents edition – more silly photo ops) and took another trolley tour around Georgetown, Embassy Row, Cathedral Heights etc. We decided to finish our D.C. visit with one last look at the Lincoln Memorial (without rain) so we walked down there, saw the crowds, the many memorials and monuments and the dry Reflecting Pool (it’s being fixed). After that we only had a short time to collect the car (if we didn’t want to pay another day of valet parking) so we hopped in a pedicab and were taken back to our hotel in style. The pedicab was a lot of fun (fast, daring driver, best views of the city) and it was good to try another mode of transport too. Then we packed up the car and set off south for Virginia, but that’ll be next time...