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More St Augustine
While in St Augustine we enjoyed more than the cute neighborhoods.
We went to the Fort and looked around. We’ve been to a number of forts over our travels, the most impressive being the one in Old San Juan Puerto, but still enjoy visiting them and learning about the history of the town.
We tried the local winery which we would not recommend. Our tasting started off with one dry wine and the guy pouring it said “don’t worry, just get through this and we’ll get to the good stuff”. 🙁 The rest of the wines were really sweet or fruit infused. One wine had hints of bubble gum ice cream. Yeah… we wouldn’t recommend it! It was fun though because we went with our friends Kirk and Donna. (They didn’t like it either!)
Kirk and Donna are not impressed.
The winery had a nice logo.
We had our boat in the marina the whole time in St Augustine, mostly because it was easier for when we went back to the west coast. The marina was nice and good walking distance to everything in town.
St Augustine – The Nations Oldest City
Our first stop once getting back to the US was St Augustine. We’d heard from many people that we would like it and we did! St Augustine is the nations oldest city and was founded by the Spanish in 1565. It still has a little bit of that Spanish flavor, lots of nice old houses and a cute downtown walking area / tourist trap.
While in St Augustine we docked the boat at the City Marina which was quite nice and took a quick 2 week trip back to the West Coast to see family and friends. It was great to see people and recharge and we returned to St Augustine feeling good!
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