DocAndersen
Baltimore, the city of Edgar Allen Poe’s life during a lot of his early writing career, and the city of his tragic death hosts a Festival of Light and has for the past three years. The first night of the Festival was Saturday, April 14th, so we wandered over to Baltimore from Annapolis. Funny, even on a Saturday traffic delayed us on the way to Annapolis and on the way to Baltimore. The festival was set up in the area of Baltimore’s waterfront called the inner harbor.
We started our festival experience by wandering by a wonderful Irish Bar and Grill. We had a delightful repast of appetizers. We do that from time to time, go to a place and only order appetizers. I guess we can’t eat as much as we used to now. We wandered around the festival area before it was officially open, although there were at least 3 or 4 thousand people already wandering with I guess the same idea (go early to miss the crowd).
The inner harbor area was decked out (it is a very large area I’ve shared pictures from one side in the past). We were next to the fort that was a Focus of America’s National Anthem. We didn’t go all the way to the place where Francis Scott Key wrote the song, but we did see the bridge (where the song was written was right below the bridge). We also go to see a wonderful sunset as we headed back into the Harbor. It was a wonderful evening experience!
They lit up at night as well, very cool!!