A New Jersey Wine Festival Frenchtown, New Jersey, USA Wine and Art Weekend is a festival that celebrates fine wine and fine art in the charming little New Sun, 06-04-2008 13:54 -0500
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Cape May NJ Cape May, New Jersey, USA The Best of Cape May New Jersey is profiled on this page. We feature our favorite bed and breakfast Thu, 27-09-2007 16:29 -0500
Guide to and Best of Lambertville NJ Lambertville, New Jersey, USA Lambertville, a small town on the Delaware River, is a short walk across the bridge from New Hope Thu, 27-09-2007 08:01 -0500
Guide to the Best of Savannah GA Savannah, Georgia, USA Our guide features the best restaurants, shops and bed and breakfast inns in this charming Thu, 27-09-2007 17:09 -0500
Restaurant Reviews . Canoe in Atlanta GA Atlanta, Georgia, USA Canoe grabbed our attention even before we got to town. As we were planning our Atlanta vacation Wed, 12-03-2008 19:01 -0500
Atlanta's Most Popular Attractions Atlanta, Georgia, USA There are hundreds of things to do, sights to see and places to go when you visit Atlanta, so Thu, 13-03-2008 10:56 -0500
Top Ten Places in Bucks County for Weddings , Pennsylvania, USA Our top 10 list includes what we think are the best places to hold extravagant fairytale weddings in Sat, 22-03-2008 13:21 -0500
Abundance at Room in Frenchtown Frenchtown, New Jersey, USA I met Elena Stokes, the owner of a new shop in Frenchtown, one night last week on the way to dinner. Sat, 28-06-2008 18:30 -0500
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Bucks County's Best Bargains . Rouget in Newtown Newtown, Pennsylvania, USA Rouget is our latest discovery. There are few restaurants in the world where our first visit was so Wed, 28-05-2008 08:55 -0500
Raven . New Hope . Closed New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA The Raven, a New Hope tradition has been closed and the owners have bought the hotel down the street Tue, 20-05-2008 11:12 -0500
I G A . Frenchtown NJ . Grocery Store Frenchtown, New Jersey, USA This grocery store has been in town for decades and it is an important part of our community. This Sat, 17-05-2008 07:03 -0500
Mercer County Park . Hamilton NJ Hamilton, New Jersey, USA Grounds for Sculpture is much more than a place for the arts. It is a also a beautifully landscaped Thu, 15-05-2008 13:48 -0500
Modern Art in New Jersey Hamilton, New Jersey, USA Grounds for Sculpture is one of the best outdoor art museums in the nation Wed, 14-05-2008 19:31 -0500
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St. Augustine . One of America's Most Beautiful Cities
Saint Augustine Florida is a city of incredible beauty and one of our choices for America's most beautiful cities. My personal history with this town goes back over 30 years.
St. Augustine is a city that I have been visiting since the late 70's when I lived in South Alabama. I now live much further away, and I have traveled many other places now, but Saint Augustine is still one of the most beautiful and well preserved towns that I have ever seen.
I had never been to this fair historic city around Christmas, and therefore had never seen how it dresses itself up for the holiday season. The center of town is ablaze with white lights as few cities ever do. This balloon draping thing they did with the trees was incredible. I spent hours trying to figure out how they did it. I do know they had to have a gigantic crane to do it.
Another photo of the Christmas Lights with more of a view of the street.
The Christmas lights on the Palm Trees and the entrance to the Bridge of Lions, St Augustine Florida.
Closeup view of the lights from under the trees.
When I visited St. Augustine in January of 2005, it was incredibly and delightfully warm. In the photo above is shown a restaurant with an outdoor courtyard. The food that day was not particularly good and the service wasn't anything to brag about, but the weather made it feel like paradise.
On the final day of our trip I went back downtown to the historic district and was once again mesmerized by the gates and gigantic chains surrounding Flagler College. The photo above shows one of the street lights that are built into the fence with a backdrop of moss covered branches in silhouette.
The massive medieval ball and chain fence, long view.
The massive medieval ball and chain fence, closeup.
