Doing the touristy thing

Happily surprised that we had breakfast included in our room rate we went to Jackson 20 next door after being awake for a few hours struggling with jet-lag.

As we only have 2 full days here in Washington we decided to make the most of our day by going to see as many tourist sights as possible, heading to the Smithsonian on the metro, which is a cluster of museums in one area.

Our museums of choice were the Air and Space Museum and the Natural History Museums, which we thought to be the most interesting. Unfortunately the weather was miserable and we did get caught in a few downpours so we tried to spend most of our time inside before we had had enough and took the metro back home again.

One thing we were amazed at is that so many things here in America are free.

Such as all the museums and a free bus service (trolley) that runs all the way down King Street between 11:30am and 10pm, which is nice and unexpected.

Once we got back to our hotel we got ready to go downstairs as our hotel offers complimentary wine between 5 and 6 which we made the most of before taking a walk to 'Brabo Tasting Room', highly rated and recommended to us as a cheaper version of the main restaurant next door.

It was well worth the money and we had a great evening sampling the food and supping on wine before taking the trolley back to the hotel.

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chrischarly on September 18, 2012 from Alexandria, United States

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's mini trip to The States

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