... Washington has something far better (in my humble opinion): the Smithsonian Institute. The Institute covers a wide variety of museums scattered around the downtown Washington D.C. area and beyond. The institute includes museums devoted to African and Asian Art, American History, a modern ... Read review
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Advantages: Free, educational, fun, stuff for everyone. It's amazing! Disadvantages: There's so much to see!
...(in my humble opinion): the Smithsonian Institute. The Institute covers a wide variety of museums scattered around the downtown Washington D.C. area and beyond. The institute includes museums devoted to African and Asian Art, American History, a modern art museum, natural history, and air and space, as well as the zoo. (In total, there are 15 different buildings – check out www.smithsonian.org for more information). There's so much incredible stuff ... ...to a selection of the Smithsonian Institute museums and galleries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Natural History Museum: This is probably the best bet if you're touring the museums with small children. My mom used to take me and my brother down here on a regular basis when we were younger, and I still remember being entranced by the exhibits, but learning at the same time because I was having fun. ...
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Advantages: Extremely good variety of sights, monuments and museums. Very good shooping opportunities. Disadvantages: The heroic approach of museums and public monuments can be tiresome. Inner city crime is a problem, but not in the tourist areas.
...Weren't things easy under the old world order? You could travel to Washington D.C. and believe that you had arrived in the capital of the free world. Eyes wide open, you would walk along Capitol Hill, the Mall and the various memorials of former Presidents, and adore the achievements of the great American nation.
So it was when I first visited Washington as a child with my parents back in 1984. I was impressed, to say the least, of the great sights of this city: the dozen or more museums of the SmithsonianInstitution put almost every other city on earth to shame, White House and Capitol Hill are impressive monuments of the American democracy, and the Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials combine great architecture with beautiful surroundings and a historical aura.
In July 1997 I returned to Washington to attend parts...
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Advantages: lots! Disadvantages: expensive to get there!
...selection of really interesting places to eat, where you often get to hear live jazz too.
I can recommend the whole food supermarket in Tenleytown, to the northwest, if you want to buy delicious picnic food.
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I think Washington is one of the best cities in the world for families, why? Because most of the museums, which form the Smithsonianinstitute are free! They are also excellent. Most of the museums in Washington are located along the Mall, the 2-mile long road running from Capitol Hill at one end to constitution gardens at the other.
My favourite museum is the national museum of American history. This museum depicts the lives of American people from early times. It includes an amazing array of exhibits such as Dorothy's slippers from the Wizard of Oz and George Washington's wooden teeth...
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Advantages: smithsonian museums, and a lot more Disadvantages: haven't had time to look for them
...remember about this not very big town huge?..
You can watch Congress in session there, but I didn't: Congress simply wasn't in session. I watched the empty chairs, bought a decorative teaspoon in the souvenir shop and walked away, having seen, oh yes, a lot of painted (frescoes) and stone men on my way.
Yes, - I 've been to the White House, and it is exactly the way you remember it from the movies. You walk through eight interior rooms, and it's as beautiful a palace as any other. Havingh visited lots of palaces in my quite long life (most of them in form of museums) I was not particularly impressed.
Very nice places to visit, and certainly a must if you are travelling with children, are the museums of the Smithsonianinstitution: The National Air & Space Museum (according to the guides, the most popular museum in the world, housing...
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Having lived for over twenty years in Cairo, where home cooking was the norm, on returning to the UK I gave in to the temptation to try out quite a few of the ready meals that I came across in the supermarkets. I was often short of time, and that was my... more
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22.04.2005
