Savannah

In May this year my parents, my husband and myself embarked on a holiday encompassing a stay in the states of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida in the United States. I am very interested in the American Civil War, so the focus of ?my? journey was Charleston, where the first gun of the Civil War was fired on Fort Sumter ? April 12th 1861. However, it is Savannah that I now hold close my heart, and I hope to inspire at least one of you to pay it a visit. Savannah is situated on the south eastern Atlantic coast of the United States, along the Savannah River. It was founded in 1733 by James Oglethorpe and Oglethorpe Avenue, off Martin Luther King Blvd ...  Read the complete review

I once had to go to Orlando for a trade show and, having "done" the Florida bit on a previous occasion (see another review), we decided to spend a weekend further north. This was helped by the fact that we had friends who lived near Savannah with whom we spent a few days. The thing most noticeable about the drive was the damage that had been left by the previous week's hurricane. Most obvious were the bill boards which the US seem to tolerate more readily than us. Hardly one had survived the storm unscathed which made them even more ugly. The friends lived in a typical US "Community" complete with security guards at the gate ...  Read the complete review