Today we have been exploring the city of Washington DC, visiting some iconic buildings and landmarks.
After eating breakfast we departed our hotel and walked to the nearby tube station. We journeyed into the centre of the capital and began our exploration. The first stop on our tour was the White House. This was quite cool to visit, although it did not look very different to any normal buildings, although it did have a very high police presence outside!
We continued on our way towards the National Mall, on towards the Capitol Building. The route passed some important buildings and major headquarters, even a few embassies. The Capitol building was impressive, the structure was very iconic.
After this we returned to the National Mall, and revisited the Museum of Natural History, and explored some of the bits we missed yesterday. There was an awesome exhibition of some cool landscape photos (from a competition), there was a guy who started to speak to us (hearing out English accents). It turns out he was the director of the competition; he asked us about what we thought about the photos and also asked us to send him a photo from our travels, hopefully we have some good photos!
After this we continued on to visit what is in my opinion the most boring place on the planet; an Art Gallery (The National Gallery). This was incredibly boring, there was lots of modern “art” which was so awful it annoyed me! I much preferred our 8 hour greyhound delay. The most exciting bit was the sign which led to the exit, this was the best bit of the entire place. However, I think some of the other may have found it partially interesting.
It was great to have exited the art gallery, we were starting to get hungry (only a snack for lunch), so we went in search of food. We found it difficult to find restaurants in central DC, we we decided to walk to Georgetown, which was a 1-2h walk.
When we arrived in Georgetown we waked along the high street in search of food, there were lots of good shops, but we found it difficult to find a restaurant we all could agree on. In the end we decided to eat at an Italian restaurant. This was a tasty meal, even though it was a bit of a small portion for the price.
Finally, we walked back into central DC before taking the subway to our hotel. As we were waiting to cross a road there were about 20 police bikes and cars in convoy with some large vehicles with blacked-out windows, we think this was The president, Barrack Obama on his way to the white house ready for his speech that evening! This has been an interesting day (well…except that art gallery), tomorrow we continue onwards towards Philadelphia, for our final day of city exploration.
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