Thursday - the day after IPW. We packed in the morning (which was quite an effort, since we didn’t want to pay for an additional piece and had to figure out how to distribute our 80 kilo in total), took a bath and got ready to leave our luggage in the hotel and go for a walk. First stop was at Kraemer Books & Café, a popular legend at Logan Square, for breakfast, corned beef hash with poached eggs (on the right, our breakfast on the plane (Lufthansa):
Then we checked out the Constitution Gardens and walked the whole Mall from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol with a couple of stops, e.g. at the White House, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument - to be seen on the pictures above. We especially liked the different hidden gardens along the Mall, which were in full bloom right now (pics below):
The weather was beautiful again, not too humid, just right. We watched the politicians and media for a while at the Capitol, where the hearing of the former FBI boss took place, and went on to Union Station and H Street Corridor, one of the up & coming neighborhoods. Around 5 pm we headed back to the hotel since we had booked with Supershuttle, for a pick-up at 5:50 pm. Were standing there for over half an hour and finally a back-up - a taxi - came and brought us to the airport without any additional stops. Much faster than the shuttle bus in the always dense traffic!
We arrived to Dulles Airport (pic) at about 7:15 pm, and the plane started with about 15 min delay at 10:45 pm. Flight was only 7:30 hours long and we even got two seats each in Economy class. Arrived to MUC at 12:30 pm on Friday and it took us over three hours to get home by two trains and streetcar and all our luggage...
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