Savannah

After my last post about Charleston, SC, here now some pictures from Savannah. We left Charleston in the afternoon to hit the beach. I already posted pictures from the beach but I want to add another one which I find quite striking:

This is Jovana, one of the Serbians I met here, with her beautiful umbrella!

After we a two hour drive to Savannah we arrived in evening. After a good dinner at a pub I decided to grab my camera and stroll around a bit...

One of the many churches in Savannah...

... and a view down Bull Street with the town hall in the background.

The next day we went off to discover the city. A look on the map reveals that Savannah is very well planned, with small parks on every other street and the bigger Forsyth Park.


...with quite a few interesting people to meet. This guy for example asked whether I want to go and get a cofffee with him. Since I wasn't very interested I just gave him a few dollars for a cup. Later I saw a sign that prohibits panhandling. Well, I guess this is their way of circumventing this prohibition...

Besides the southern style homes already seen in Savannah, there are also a couple of very colorful houses like these.

Savannah seems to have an endless number of churches but this is one of the more important: The composer of Jingle Bells (James L. Pierpont) served here as a music directory. If this is not remarkable, what is then?

Besides all the small churches there is also a cathedral, which looks quite impressive, even more so with the palm trees around it.

Not far away from the cathedral is the Colonial Park Cemetery on which quite a number of important historical persons (mostly during the time of the civil war) have found their peace.

We also came across this interesting monument for the cold war and how it split the world apart. Unfortunately, I forgot the details and cannot reconstruct them from my pictures...

And again a bridge, this time the Talmadge Memorial Bridge over the Savannah River.

On our way back we went through Atlanta where we tried to find a coffee and ended up with some brown fluid from one the infinite fast food restaurant. Probably the low point of this trip. Nevertheless, it's been a fun time and both Charleston and Savannah are certainly worth a visit!