For years now this Yankee has been wanting to visit Savannah, Georgia and for the first time finally, my husband and I went in May. When we first got there I wasn’t impressed in fact when we arrived I said to my husband “we didn’t travel all this way for this did we”? He assured me in about another 3 blocks we would get to Historic Savannah, Georgia. So I waited and all of sudden these pretty parks started to show up along with streets filled with stores and then we got to the river.
The parks for this Yankee were probably my favorite part of historic Savannah Georgia. The parks are on every other block I believe and are nice and quiet. There are benches to sit on. There is often a statute in the center of the park. And the surrounding buildings are pretty to look at and they have their own historic value to them. We stayed at a nice hotel called the Planters Inn that was right next to one of the parks. And apparently, the house of the Wesley brothers used to sit or stand there.
My husband and I did enjoy walking all around Historic Savannah and learned some history. We got to see where George Washington had donated cannons from the war to display in the city down near where the cotton market used to be.
We enjoyed going into different stores and ended up buying some cookies at Byrd’s cookies after getting to sample some of them and finding out we/I really liked the dark chocolate cookies. The trolly tours are a nice way to get around Historic Savannah, Georgia, and learning about the area, at least for this Yankee it was. They let you get off and on at each location which is a nice way to get around there.
The downfall for this Yankee, when it comes to Historic Savannah Georgia, is I didn’t care for the food at any of the places we ate. I guess we didn’t pick the right restaurants. And the law there allows people to walk around with cups of alcoholic beverages which isn’t fun to watch people get drunk and start acting stupid especially ladies at night. Would this Yankee go back to Historic Savannah Georgia? Sadly not any time soon. It just wasn’t the right fit for me and my personality. But, hey at least I gave it a try!
Kathleen Smith is an indie author, blogger and she has her own podcast Kathleen’s Korner. You can read or listen about her life in Brooklyn and Upstate NY. You can also either read or listen to her personal story of how she and her husband kept their marriage together through 3 miscarriages in Miscarriages My Story