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A few weekends back Alex and I hoped a train to Philadelphia for a weekend of sightseeing, and oh my word did we see sights or what. Over the course of two days, according to my pedometer, we racked up over 18 miles! No wonder we were exhausted with very sore feet by the time we caught our train home on Sunday night. We packed a lot into the weekend, but there were many things that we didn't get to do like run up the Rocky steps or explore the dozen or more museums that call Philadelphia home. My favorite parts of the weekend:
- Franklin Walking Seminar (Context Travel) - We were the only two people on this tour and we had a wonderful docent. Learnt a lot about Franklin, and had some great discussions about the marketing of history, how different materials present their exhibitions and the foundation myths of the US
- Reading Terminal Market - Awesome farmers' market. Packed to the rafters with fresh produce, Amish ladies, and hole in the wall places to eat
- La Colombe - Philadelphia based coffee company that I am addicted to. They have a cafe near my office, and I dragged Alex to the original cafe in Philly. He had a very yummy iced coffee made with condensed milk, and it was so delish that I wished I'd ordered it instead of a boring latte
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology - Okay I fess up one of the main reasons we went to Philly was so I could check out the Greek & Roman galleries. The museum is a little old school but the Greek & Roman galleries had recently been done up and were pretty darn good. I got quite squeally when I got to see a Villanovan hut urn which was all shades of awesome (if you are into that type of thing!)
- Franklin Institute - There were two special exhibits on: Galileo & the Medici (excellent, very technical so Alex was in heaven) and Star Trek (lots of costumes, sets and props; we were in heaven!)
I didn't end up taking that many photographs, the walking tour was really intense and given that Alex was snapping away I thought it would be rude if I started talking photos too but I've popped what snapped on Flickr.
