Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland

Our anniversary trip to Washington DC was planned just two weeks before the real journey and we mainly bought the flight tickets and booked a car. Surprisingly, the ticket for a couple is cheaper if you fly to BWI airport, instead of Washington itself, so we flew to Baltimore. The flight takes 2h and its quality depends a lot on a weather conditions. Generally the weather improves when flying from MN to MD, so was in this case: we left cold, snowy MN and landed in the spring, warm MD. Car rental was quite a fast experience and very easy one for US driving permit holder, we could even choose a car we wanted to drive. Our choice was the compact Chevrolet. Friends who had invited us to stay at their house, live in Centreville VA, so we had a few hours of driving ahead. It was to be both our first and last time in Baltimore, so I asked for a short jaunt to the harbour first. Inner Harbor is a typically tourist place in the whole city, that’s why it was pretty crowded this time, too. You can see many sailor’s clubs and restaurants there but our goals were the Lighthouse and the Constellation ship. If we had more time, we would probably see the Fort McHenry at the Chesapeake bay, Edgar Allen Poe House or even the National Aquarium, but we really had time for the Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse and a short walk through the port. The Seven Foot Knoll Light was built in 1855 and is the oldest screw-pile lighthouse in Maryland. It was located atop Seven Foot Knoll in the Chesapeake Bay until it was replaced by a modern navigational aid and relocated to Baltimore's Inner Harbor as a museum exhibit. USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy. She was built in 1854, using a small amount of material salvaged from the frigate USS Constellation, which had been disassembled the year before. She remained in service for close to a century before finally being retired in 1954. She is now preserved as a museum ship and is a National Historic Landmark.

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