We had a lot of ground to cover today so we made an early start with a self guided walking tour of the French Quarter of Charleston. The tour took in the market, and also the waterfront, and now that we've seen a couple of French Quarters in the space of a week or so, and also having visited France previously, we are fast becoming experts in the "Quartiers Français", as those in the know (like us) would call them.From Charleston we drove on to Savannah, which has a similar feel to Charleston, at least as far as the historic centres of the cities go, with the grand, beautiful old American style of weatherboard homes with shutters. Savannah also has a waterfront, which was a bit more touristy than the one in Charleston, but it also meant that it was better developed for things like al-fresco dining.
We stopped for lunch at a cafe that had good reviews for coffee but we really should learn our lesson and not take any notice of coffee reviews written by Americans, we are from Melbourne after all (as well as French Quarter experts, have I mentioned that?). Even asking for a strong coffee didn't help, the coffee was still weak and tepid. They did have an interesting credit card payment system using an iPad though, too bad they didn't put the money they spent on that towards some barista training for their staff.
We pushed on towards Orlando, stopping at St. Augustine, the oldest European settled city in America, to walk around the Castillo de San Marcos which is an old fort built by the Spanish, complete with a moat, drawbridge and plenty of cannons.
We made it to Orlando (staying near the airport where we need to return our car tomorrow) after dark, we have covered over 5500km in our two week road trip of the Deep South, but it was great to have some freedom.
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