Well it is 2005 and if my memory serves me correctly May.
As I am sure I was there for "Memorial Day"
It really is a beautiful city, so much unlike New York City., which is great in it's own way!
It is quiet and the streets at night are much darker then here in Britain.
In my few days there I noticed that there did not appear to be many shops to browse round.
Not that I went there for shopping!
There are shops, but I found them in Pentagon City, I had a lovely meal there.
http://pentagoncity.mallsite.us/
Anna was kind enough to allow me to go on my own.
I was studying for my BA (Hons) in History and was currently studying American History.
I stayed in a nice Hotel. The room was large and I didn't discover until the last couple of days that it had it's own stand alone kitchen!
I visited memorials and museums.
I highly recommend this city and hope you enjoy the photos that follow.
Dull and dismal Britain!
Soaring above the clouds.
The Lincoln Memorial
President Lincoln himself, shame about the scaffolding.
The Washington moument, the tallest building in the city
Veteran's stall outside Lincoln memorial
Remembering the female role in war
Some soldiers in Vietnam?
The Vietnam war memorial. Note the names start in the middle and spread out left and right.
The Second World War memorial, impressive at night. My first night I walked through it, it was lit up, it was some thing else.
The view from the Washington monument
Theodore Roosevelt monument.
In my view America's finest President.
The 2nd WW and Lincoln memorials
The White House
The White House
My hotel room
Huntington a suburb of Washington DC
George Washington's house "Mount Vernon"
Around Mount Vernon. I had to cross State boundaries to reach here!
The Potomac river in Mount Vernon, Virginia.
Some tobacco.
Grave for the "coloured" servants
A soldier at the Pentagon
America's National cemetery for its war dead.
Serene, respectful.
The Robert E Lee memorial
Grave of JFK
View from Arlington
Robert E Lee's house
The ceremony to remember the war dead that takes place each day
A Ukrainian soldier
Some lovely desert!
The White House
Pentagon City
Happy to not use it!
The Capitol
Inside
A throw back to the seventies
The Supreme court
Houdini's handcuffs
The library
Inside some museums
About here I dropped my camera!
I went to the mall to check my card in the camera was alright, it was, but that was the end of pictures!
