Month: August 2019

Today we have another couple of Antebellum houses to visit, we decided to take the car rather than rely on

Today we have visits to a number of houses scheduled as there are loads of antebellum houses that were not

Today we set off for Natchez, we decided to call into a shopping centre before we left as Jackson has

The good news is that the storm we had yesterday has passed us by and it is nice again today

The storm that has been circling us for the last few days finally hit and when we woke up this

It turns out that there was never any fighting during the civil war in Mobile therefore the houses were not

Today we drove to Mobile which we had been told was originally going to be called Africa town but it

I really like Montgomery, possibly because it is a State Capitol so a bit more organised and definitely richer. We

Last night we had the most enormous thunderstorm where the whole sky went dark, we had thunder and lightning overhead

Today we set off to walk around Birmingham, we are staying in the heart of downtown and the city is

We had to leave our Pullman car and continue our journey so having packed up we got in the car

Today we explored Chattanooga by foot, we walked down Market street which is the main road that runs from the

We set off this morning slightly confused because what we though was a 3 hour journey seemed to be saying

Today we went to the US Space and Rocket Centre which is operated by the government of Alabama and is

We had stayed in Florence as a way to split the journey from Oxford to Huntsville which meant that the

We started the day by stopping at Tupelo, the birthplace of Elvis Presley where they have created a park dedicated

We walked up to the Visitor Information to pick up a copy of the Oxford Walking Tour booklet which has

We had breakfast then went and checked out of the hotel and set off for Graceland our first stop for

Today was scheduled to be the hottest day of the week so we limited our time outside by doing two

We decided to start the day with a visit to Sun Records which was a good plan as today is

Today we had a walk that was round the north of town. Our first stop was the Slave Haven Underground

Today we packed up and set off to collect our car from the Airport so we can start the Road

We started today by walking towards the State Capitol which is actually quite close to us and perched on top

The threat of industrial action at Heathrow didn’t materialise, but we left the taxi pickup at the same time which