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I just returned from a weekend trip to Baltimore. This is the week of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC, but I did not bother to go there as the weather was terrible. It rained most of the weekend. Instead, I went to the Baltimore Inner Harbor and spent a few hours playing tourist.

There is quite a lot to see in the Inner Harbor area. There are all of the usual tourist attractions such as shops, restaurants and souvevir stands. There is a downtown shopping mall, a Hard Rock Cafe, a Hooters and an ESPN Zone sports bar. There is a great Aquarium, although the admission price is a bit heavy at $27 per adult. The Science Museum is just a short walk around the basin.

I chose to visit some of the ships docked at the Inner Harbor basin. For a mere $7, I got to tour a coast guard cutter, a lighthouse, a lighthouse ship and a World War II vintage submarine. I skipped the tour of the Revolutionay War era USS Constitution, a four masted sailing ship, as I had seen it before. Instead, I went indoors and ate one of those famous Maryland Crab Cakes at Phillip's seafood stand. Phillips has a nice sitdown restaurant, a takeout seafood stand and an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet in the Inner Harbor Shops pavillion. The food at all of them is very good. The crew working at the fudge stand in the pavillion were putting on quite a show. They sang, chanted and clapped hands as they made their candy. A crowd of about 50 tourists gathered around the fudge place just to hear the music.

If you are driving the I-95 corridor along the east coast of the USA between Boston or New York and Florida, Greorgia or the Carolinas, Baltimore is a good place to stop for a day or a night. it is only 45 minutes north of Washington DC, 2 hours south of Philadelphia and 4 hours south of New York City.

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06-08-2007 5:12 PM

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