Well the weather app on my phone said it's 30 degrees here but it also says the "feels like" temperature is 36 because of the humidity. Welcome to the south!
Yesterday I took a short flight down to Charleston, South Carolina and the atmosphere is different, the accent is different, in fact everything is different and I'm also beginning to solve the Cream Tea problem too. I'm staying in a B&B in the centre of town and during the siesta time they provide tea and cake (although I hasten to add the locals don't take a siesta only the tourists!). The old town is centred on a peninsula and the architecture is I would say "American Chocolate Box".
If you remember from yesterday's post the Founding Fathers, when they declared independence from Britain (AMEXIT?), kicked the slavery issue into the long grass for a future generation to sort out. This and other issues eventually formed a north/south divide in the new country and in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln became president, South Carolina was the first state to decide to go it alone and leave the Union (SCEXIT?). They were then joined by other southern states, formed the Confederacy, and this in 1861 lead to the American Civil War.
The first shots of the war were here in Charleston when government troops refused to leave Fort Sumter at the entrance to Charleston harbour and were fired upon by Confederate troops. Today I took a guided boat trip out into the harbour to Fort Sumter but unfortunately we had to say on the boat and not get off there because of damage caused by Hurricane Irma. The fort was badly flooded and the landing pier damaged.
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