Baltimore - Into the Big City

What will be our lasting memories of Baltimore? We seemed to have walked miles and seen a little :). As we approached Baltimore on a grey day it was quite impressive to see the skyscrapers in the distance, seemed quite exciting to be arriving in a city.

Baltimore skyline on a grey day

There was a reasonable anchorage in between 2 marinas which was ideal for us, there was a near by public dock where we could tie our dingy and Safeway supermarket across the road although it was about 30 minutes walk into the main town. Although pretty quiet since we were in a city, our first morning we were woken with an odd boat noise outside, they were cleaning the water with a very cool boat.

Harbour cleaning boat

Baltimore harbour was busy with tourists which was not surprising in August, the Aquarium is one of the main attractions, we would have loved to have visited but after our experiences of busy museums in Washington we put off. The harbour is surrounded by bars and restaurants and a nice place to watch world go by.

Baltimore harbour on another grey day

Baltimore harbour

We were anchored of an area called Canton and 10 minutes walk from Fells Point both of which are residential areas almost with a village feel as they have lots of lovely restaurants and pubs, actually like the pubs in England. We had a really nice night out for Marks birthday, starting with beers at pub followed by cocktails at fancying restaurant.

Mark enjoying a birthday beer

View from our lovely restaurant

Mmmmm blueberry vodka was delicious and Mark's Barrs Gin blew his head off

Amanda admiring the view

Amanda and Mark feeling the effects of the cocktails :)

We had an interesting trip to the Walters Art Museum which was more of a gallery and much bigger than we expected, with exhibitions on Greeks, Egyptians, Asia, it was even better since it was free and it was raining most of that day!


We did explore the town a bit more, there was a good view of the harbour and the empty marina from Federal Hill. One of our other memories is the runners! A path ran around the waterfront and there was a constant stream of runners all day and even we hen we looked out in the early hours when it was still dark!  A fit city.