Well, after a wet day yesterday we woke to clear blue skies and COLD, ok it’s all relative but it was only 7C!!
We were on the road by 9AM to got to Savannah about 80 miles North. The plan was to take a Hop On – Hop Off bus tour of the historical part of the city. The tour was fine, but Lyn and I both had a (wrong as it turned out) pre-conceived idea of what we would see. We were expecting large, colourful mansion / plantation houses on 1+ acre lots. In reality there were a lot of mansions, but they were mostly brick and had little or no land. Despite that we had a great tour driver and learned a fair bit about the city.
We went to a riverside seafood place and had a great lunch. The weather remained cool around 15C with blustery winds
Next stop was a River trip on the Savannah River, unfortunately this was not really worth it. Again we were expecting to see mansions and gardens on the river, all we saw were a number of dockyards, silos, container ports and a large pile of saw dust destined for Ikea in Sweden.
Rather than take the tour bus back to our truck we took a walk throught the Old City Market, this was more a series of a street cafes rather than a retail market. All in all it was an interesting (and apaert from the boat tour) worthwhile trip. On the way home Lyn raided JoAnn fabrics and got a lot of stuff she wanted / needed / desired. I paid a trip to Barnes and Noble to pick up a “nook” e-Book reader to replace the one that died recently