Washington DC recommendations

[nimrod]

I stayed there once, wanted to go to NYC but the wife's sister (our host) preferred DC, so that's where we went.
It was closed. There had  been some rain and everything below broken pavement level was flooded. Anything of mild interest was shut.
We wound-up hanging close to the White House in the pissing rain coz there was a lot of security activity, helicopters coming and going and G-men in wrinkled black suits all over the place, eventually a blacked out stretched limo with military escorts came speeding past, and we we  went back to our self catering apartment and ate a microwaved pizza. Wot a day.

[JohnnyH]

14 hours ago, lifetime fan said:

I’ve posted this before on here. 
 

When I went you were given a book on entry and it detailed the life story of a Jewish person, as you went through each section of the museum you read a page or two of the book. 
 

Like I said I spent a good few hours just trying to take it all in and at the end there’s a section with a small cinema screen where you watch a short film and then read the last page of the book you’d be given to find out what happened to your person. 
 

When I was watching the film there was only me and one old boy watching it. As we both walked out I was kinda numb by it all and he asked me what happened to my person. I don’t mind admitting I was properly choked and just about managed to say he had been killed and then mumbled what about yours. 
 

He just pulled his shirt sleeve up to show me the serial number the nazis had tattooed on his arm. 
 

 

I had similar in a hotel in Germany having done Aushwitz a few days previous, I was then in the German team hotel ahead of an Ireland v Germany match in Stuttgart, and similarly got talking to an old lad, initially about the footy. He was actually Dutch. He arrived at Birkenau with his family and was the only one to survive. Really chilling when you see the tattoo