Le Capitol - Independenceville
Well well well, what a couple of days
After enjoying a truely unique tour of washingtons monuments on saturday morning, in the blinding heat and with a tour guide who was like a cross between a school economics teacher and dennis hopper in apocalpyse now in the boiling hot sunshine, i felt fully aquainted with the sights monuments and memorials of the beautiful and friendly city of washington D.C. The tour even included an obligotry group photo outside the white house!
In the afternoon three of us, all lower leauge fans went on an adventure to the Robert Kennedy Memorial stadium to see D.C united play soccer against the colorado rapids, the d.c united team included 17 year old wunderkind Freddy Adu. Having been orginally seated in between two large concrete blocks and 3 kids , at half time we decided to move to a position where we could see and get a little more atmosphere than the sterility of the first half to which we were greeted by a drunk being ejected having just vomited over two rows of seats!
In the evening i had one of those 'seriously random nights'. This was in the top ten, right up there with swimming pools in fueteventura, razorlights tourbus, 4am bakeries and russian elevators. On coming out from being out at a bar, where sadly your humble authour had been watching T.V and playing snake on my american cellphone, i was coerced into the beutiful idea of walking to the Lincoln memorial with a group of us who has met at the tour in the morning, whilst carrying one of the girls bags as she had to be at the greyhound terminal by 6 am, some people even wanted to go swimming in the reflecting pool, but thankfully sense prevailed on that one!
The next day i went with leah, an australian to arlington national cemetry which was very moving and interesting followed by the huge iwo jima memorial to the US marine corps, which was very impressive and hopefully have some great photos from that. In the afternoon i visited the museum of american history which led me to conclude that britain had taken no part in world war II!!
On monday i headed for philadephia, to discover that my hostel was actually in the middle of nowhere! An unfriendly welcome from the locals on the bus didnt do anything for my confidence but the hostel proved to be lovely. This was where i met will who is from manchester and togther we started to watch rocky (it felt apt being in philly), then realised we were only watching it for the steps sequence so fast forwarded the tape and let the girls in the room hi jack the recorder to watch pretty woman.
The next day Will and I borrowed bikes from the hostel and cycled into the city. After the experience i can definately see why floyd landis took performance enchancing drugs, im still struggling to sit down properly. We did the obligotry photo by the art museum- aka the rocky steps and then went to the excellent franklin science centre, in the afternoon we explored downtown and then took the bikes off to 'Lee's hoagie house' where we had been told was the best place to obtain a philly cheese steak and it didnt disappoint. After a spectaular ride back i collapsed exhustedly into the shower, feeling glad of the exercise.
Today i explored more of the city, and visted the site of the signing of the declaration of independence and the liberty bell which infact is a lot smaller than i had imagined it.
As a side point, monday marked the half way point of my post camp travels, i can't belive how quickly its going.
Hope everyone is having a great time,
T
After enjoying a truely unique tour of washingtons monuments on saturday morning, in the blinding heat and with a tour guide who was like a cross between a school economics teacher and dennis hopper in apocalpyse now in the boiling hot sunshine, i felt fully aquainted with the sights monuments and memorials of the beautiful and friendly city of washington D.C. The tour even included an obligotry group photo outside the white house!
In the afternoon three of us, all lower leauge fans went on an adventure to the Robert Kennedy Memorial stadium to see D.C united play soccer against the colorado rapids, the d.c united team included 17 year old wunderkind Freddy Adu. Having been orginally seated in between two large concrete blocks and 3 kids , at half time we decided to move to a position where we could see and get a little more atmosphere than the sterility of the first half to which we were greeted by a drunk being ejected having just vomited over two rows of seats!
In the evening i had one of those 'seriously random nights'. This was in the top ten, right up there with swimming pools in fueteventura, razorlights tourbus, 4am bakeries and russian elevators. On coming out from being out at a bar, where sadly your humble authour had been watching T.V and playing snake on my american cellphone, i was coerced into the beutiful idea of walking to the Lincoln memorial with a group of us who has met at the tour in the morning, whilst carrying one of the girls bags as she had to be at the greyhound terminal by 6 am, some people even wanted to go swimming in the reflecting pool, but thankfully sense prevailed on that one!
The next day i went with leah, an australian to arlington national cemetry which was very moving and interesting followed by the huge iwo jima memorial to the US marine corps, which was very impressive and hopefully have some great photos from that. In the afternoon i visited the museum of american history which led me to conclude that britain had taken no part in world war II!!
On monday i headed for philadephia, to discover that my hostel was actually in the middle of nowhere! An unfriendly welcome from the locals on the bus didnt do anything for my confidence but the hostel proved to be lovely. This was where i met will who is from manchester and togther we started to watch rocky (it felt apt being in philly), then realised we were only watching it for the steps sequence so fast forwarded the tape and let the girls in the room hi jack the recorder to watch pretty woman.
The next day Will and I borrowed bikes from the hostel and cycled into the city. After the experience i can definately see why floyd landis took performance enchancing drugs, im still struggling to sit down properly. We did the obligotry photo by the art museum- aka the rocky steps and then went to the excellent franklin science centre, in the afternoon we explored downtown and then took the bikes off to 'Lee's hoagie house' where we had been told was the best place to obtain a philly cheese steak and it didnt disappoint. After a spectaular ride back i collapsed exhustedly into the shower, feeling glad of the exercise.
Today i explored more of the city, and visted the site of the signing of the declaration of independence and the liberty bell which infact is a lot smaller than i had imagined it.
As a side point, monday marked the half way point of my post camp travels, i can't belive how quickly its going.
Hope everyone is having a great time,
T
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