Touring Charleston
November 8
Day two in Charleston we did the tourist thing - carriage ride around the city. Our carriage was led by two sister mules- Rhyme and Reason and our tour guide who has been leading tours for 18 years with the same company.
He went into great detail about how well cared for the animals are. I was glad to both hear that and see it. He was very endearing with Rhyme and Reason.
Charleston is nicknamed the holy city because it was founded with Religious Freedom in mind. Today there are 180 churches and a few synagogues too. While it was a religion tolerant city it was not a Puritan city. The guide referred to Charleston as the Las Vegas of the colonies. Eat, drink and be merry was it’s theme! In colonial times there was one tavern for every 13 people!
St. Phillips Episcopal Church built in1836.
Cathedral of St John the Baptist. The original building burned down during the great fire of 1821. This is the rebuild which started in1890 and was completed in the early 1900’s. They ran out of money and so the church had no steeple. The steeple and the bells came in 2010!
St. John's Lutheran Church is the "Mother Church of Lutheranism" in Charleston and in South Carolina. Built in 1820. Gorgeous wrought iron work.
We saw lots of beautiful homes from the antebellum period. Lots of the homes were called single houses. They are characterized by the narrow end of the home on the street side making it look like it is one room wide. They could fit more homes in that way. These homes also have beautiful porches referred to as piazzas.
Single house with original stepping stone so one could step into their carriage.
Don’t know if you can see it well but the ceilings of the piazzas are painted blue - haint blue - to ward off spirits or haints who can’t cross a body of water.
After our carriage ride we ubered to the other side of town for a restaurant that was supposed to have great Asian
Street food, only to get there and find they were on siesta between lunch and dinner. I was in big trouble since i picked the restaurant and it didn’t seem like we were near anything else. The closed place suggested, a Tapas bar down the street a few blocks. So off we went. On the way we passed a little restaurant, read the menu and proceeded to have really delicious ceviche and tortilla soup at the Pink Cactus. Funny thing is later I got a text from Kayla who had also eaten at this off the beaten path spot.
On our walk back to the dinghy dock we passed a healing garden snuck in between a couple of buildings. I had to walk down the brick path. I’m so glad that we did. It opened up into a courtyard with a fountain, beautiful greenery and lovely brass sculptures.
This lady was my favorite sculpture. I’m wearing lots of clothes, it was cold!
When we left we realized that one of the buildings the garden was nestled between was the Hollings Cancer Center. So glad we took a few minutes there and makes sense there is a healing garden at a cancer center.
Walked back to the dinghy dock, cruised to Seaquel and lifted the dinghy to be ready for travel on Saturday. We loved Charleston though not so much our rolly anchorage. We will return and next time tour a plantation or maybe a museum.
I will leave you with this quote from the healing garden:
I shall pass through this life but once, any good, therefore, that I can do or kindness that I can show to any fellow creature let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again. (Stephen Grellet (2 November 1773 – 16 November 1855) a prominent French-born American Quaker missionary.)
Day two in Charleston we did the tourist thing - carriage ride around the city. Our carriage was led by two sister mules- Rhyme and Reason and our tour guide who has been leading tours for 18 years with the same company.
He went into great detail about how well cared for the animals are. I was glad to both hear that and see it. He was very endearing with Rhyme and Reason.
Charleston is nicknamed the holy city because it was founded with Religious Freedom in mind. Today there are 180 churches and a few synagogues too. While it was a religion tolerant city it was not a Puritan city. The guide referred to Charleston as the Las Vegas of the colonies. Eat, drink and be merry was it’s theme! In colonial times there was one tavern for every 13 people!
We saw lots of beautiful homes from the antebellum period. Lots of the homes were called single houses. They are characterized by the narrow end of the home on the street side making it look like it is one room wide. They could fit more homes in that way. These homes also have beautiful porches referred to as piazzas.
Single house with original stepping stone so one could step into their carriage.
Don’t know if you can see it well but the ceilings of the piazzas are painted blue - haint blue - to ward off spirits or haints who can’t cross a body of water.
After our carriage ride we ubered to the other side of town for a restaurant that was supposed to have great Asian
Street food, only to get there and find they were on siesta between lunch and dinner. I was in big trouble since i picked the restaurant and it didn’t seem like we were near anything else. The closed place suggested, a Tapas bar down the street a few blocks. So off we went. On the way we passed a little restaurant, read the menu and proceeded to have really delicious ceviche and tortilla soup at the Pink Cactus. Funny thing is later I got a text from Kayla who had also eaten at this off the beaten path spot.
On our walk back to the dinghy dock we passed a healing garden snuck in between a couple of buildings. I had to walk down the brick path. I’m so glad that we did. It opened up into a courtyard with a fountain, beautiful greenery and lovely brass sculptures.
This lady was my favorite sculpture. I’m wearing lots of clothes, it was cold!
When we left we realized that one of the buildings the garden was nestled between was the Hollings Cancer Center. So glad we took a few minutes there and makes sense there is a healing garden at a cancer center.
Walked back to the dinghy dock, cruised to Seaquel and lifted the dinghy to be ready for travel on Saturday. We loved Charleston though not so much our rolly anchorage. We will return and next time tour a plantation or maybe a museum.
I will leave you with this quote from the healing garden:
I shall pass through this life but once, any good, therefore, that I can do or kindness that I can show to any fellow creature let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again. (Stephen Grellet (2 November 1773 – 16 November 1855) a prominent French-born American Quaker missionary.)
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