On the morning of 21st of March we drove up the coast in direction to Savannah. We stopped at an IHOP (first time for me to have pancakes) and then had the next stop at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, which was more like a turtle hospital. There we were told how each of that poor creatures had turned up there (accident with a boat was the usual reason) and the guide explained to us how they were trying to help them and how the chances would be that they would be released into the ocean. It was very interesting and shocking at the same time. The center is situated on Jekyll Island which has a really nice beach and seemed to be worth a longer visit (maybe next time).

From Jekyll Island we headed further north to Savannah. Savannah is a nice city which for the first time made me feel like I’m in Southern USA.  It has quite an ancient town as well and most of the shops are small little shops that sell art & hand-crafted things so we took a long walk through the city for shopping (nice little stores where they sell self-made silver jewellery). The harbour is definitely worth a visit as well. It seems that Savannah is the home of selfmade toffee and we walked through one of those factories where you can watch how they make it and try some of the products they make. I guess most of our money we spent in a store that was making a lot of different things out of peanuts. I can’t recall the name anymore but they had quite a lot of tasty products!

This might be the place to warn the Europeans that sweets in the States are much more sweeter than in Europe normally!

In the middle of the night we started to drive down to Florida that morning. I was allowed to choose a destination for the weekend (thanks to Doug & Nina for that again) and so it was supposed to be the sunny south.

The 20th of March we would spend the whole day in St. Augustine, Florida. A quite ancient town which had a lot of places to see and an absolutely beautiful ancient town. When we arrived there we checked in at the hotel and started of for the city. First stop was „Fountain of Youth“. Wouldn’t have been my choice but Nina & Doug insisted on the point that if you are in St. Augustine you have to see that. The Fountain of Youth is somehow an ancient fountain which is said to be already used by the natives of that area before the Spanish conquistadores arrived there. Those realised that the natives went to get much older than themselves and it was said that the fountain was the reason for this. It’s quite a funny place, very touristy but with a nice surrounding so we took a walk through the park. I wouldn’t say I need to see it again but it was a good start for that day.

St. Augustine has a crocodile farm and that should have been the second place we wanted to visit. Honestly when we saw the prices for entrance we decided it wasn’t worth 20 dollars per person and directly went on to the lighthouse. We didn’t know that this weekend was lighthouse festival the whole area around it was filled with people and little attractions like riding on ponies. We spent the whole afternoon there, walked up the lighthouse and took a walk to the harbour. The picture going with this post is taken inside the lighthouse.

We walked through St. Augustine town and there we discovered a little Café serving the best coffee I had in USA so far. It was called „Café del Hidalgo“ and besides really good coffee they also have gelato. For the Europeans normal icecream but compared to the icecream they normally sell in the States it’s awesome. Due to that café I can easily say that if I should ever plan moving to the states I will probably end up somewhere near St. Augustine, just to be sure to have good coffee at hand.

For the evening we went into town to have dinner and ended up in a fish restaurant (I believe it was something like Harry’s seafood restaurant) which served a really good food and where, for the first time of this year, we could already take our diner sitting outside.