Sunday, 31 July 2016

Fun at the Farmers' Market


Sunday is market day! DuPont Circle features a farmers' market that occupies 2 blocks just to the west and north, with rows of luscious, colourful produce, artisanal cheese, pickles and even a couple of booze stalls. 


This specialty mushroom stall was getting lots of business...


... punnets of ripe blackberries lined up row on row...


... these pickles were amazing, I tasted my way down the whole row but couldn't quite justify the price...


... gorgeous summer produce; I went home with heirloom tomatoes, basil and a goat cheese pecorino and had divine salad for over a week. The beetroot gazpacho and kale and eggplant salad from SouperGirl were also a delicious lunch -- I drank the soup straight from the container while sitting on the grass, not having a spoon!


I will be back to buy some of these gins and whiskies, once my money comes through.

Thursday, 21 July 2016

A new adventure begins!



Hello, Washington DC!  


Flying into DC airport at 4:30pm on a Thursday afternoon, I was out of the airport and onto the Metro quicker than I would have thought.  My first glimpse of DC: old railway bridge across the Potomac River.  DCA really is close to the city!
Having found my hostel, home for the next three nights while I furiously try to house-hunt, I headed out on a quest to get a SIM card (super-easy), then down across the National Mall to a free outdoor cinema night at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial (Zootopia: even better when not in Japanese!)

Some first impressions: the Carnegie Library...






The HQ of the AAAS!




The White House: it's just there, you can walk right past it and even take selfies...


GWU and the Washington Monument as seen from outside the Lincoln Memorial.





The MLKJ memorial itself: somewhat featureless from this side... and the Washington Monument by night.