Sunday 23rd October

Today we drove about one and a bit hours to Harper's Ferry. This is a historic National Park at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. There were several battles over the area during the Civil War and it is also the place where the famous abolitionist, John Brown, raided the US armoury to try and arm a slave rebellion that never happenned. He was caught and hung and this actually caused such an uproar that it was one of the triggers for the Civil War, that led eventually to abolition.

We did a short walk through fields (never seen so many grasshoppers and crickets!) and woodland to a lookout over the river and some old earthworks where we sat and ate a very tasty sandwich bagel made by Lizzy, before returning and getting the shuttle bus into the historic Lower Town.  There we looked around the John Brown museum before returning to the car park. 

We drove back to Baltimore and got ready to go out to a very special restaurant for our farewell dinner (Woodberry Kitchen). We arrived by Uber in time for our 7.45pm reservation but our table wasn't ready so we had a cocktail while we waited. The food was amazing! We shared four starters and then Iain and I had crabcake, followed by a creme brulee with roasted grapes which was wonderful. 

Monday 24th October

Poor Ryan had to be up at 6am but we rose rather later and Lizzy called us an Uber at 10.30am to take us to BWI. Unfortunately there was no available lounge (under reconstruction) so we had to wait until we boarded the plane at 1.45pm to get a free drink and nibbles! We are presently at Newark awaiting our evening flight to Manchester.

This is Ann....signing off!