Savannah

Just after the sandy beaches of Florida and where we step back to Victorian days.

Our visit to Savannah was fleeting but it was enough to help us appreciate what a beautiful place it was.

After leaving New Orleans, just three hours up the coast we stopped off in Pensacola, FL for a quick walk along the beach. Pensacola was one of those little gems we didn’t realise we needed to see it, until we saw it. En route from New Orleans to Savannah we were passing through a tiny bit of Florida – how could we not stop and walk on a beach?

We pulled into Pensacola, which admittedly was not the beautiful beach town we had anticipated. We Googled vegetarian restaurants in the area, (this action for the best part of our trip across the south of the US would return zero results, but it was tried none the less) and we found a potential winner close by – Sluggo’s (it had reviews and people said okay things – the fact it did non-deep fried food won us over immediately).

A dollar toll to get across the bridge out to Pensacola beach, after travelling 3200 km from the west coast it was nice to finally get our toes wet in the waters on the east side of the continent, this time, in the Gulf of Mexico.

After a stroll up and down the white sandy beach, spotting a turtle breeding zone and resisting the urge to book a night in Pensacola, we continued on to Tallahassee. We didn’t get to see a whole lot there, our motel was well out of town and our quick drive through didn’t show up any real points of interest. We stayed the night and went onwards to Savannah.

We had a bit of lie in before leaving Tallahassee but still made it on the road before 11. The heavens opened up and we drove through torrential rain for the last hour, complete with lightning. Getting to Savannah, we were wrecked and in serious need of food. The floods were bad enough to cause proper flooding in the city and cars inched through deep puddles at each intersection. After we found some parking we went for an ambling stroll through the streets and ended up on Broughton Street getting food in B&D Burgers.

Savannah has an old world feel about it, The Southern Belle architecture romanticises the city and you can’t help but feel like you’ve stepped back in time as you explore the city’s 22 Victorian park squares and cobblestone streets.

We wandered through the beautiful streets for a few hours, eventually forcing ourselves to get back in the car and drive to Washington D.C where we would spend the next couple of days.