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February 10, 2007

Helping you study up on Savannah

Our flight leaves in three hours! Here's some online Savannah reading material for you while we are on the plane:

  • The City Unfiltered's blog: Savannah news and politics
  • Connect Savannah: Savannah entertainment
  • The Savannah Morning News: Savannah's daily newspaper
  • iTour Savannah: Here's how they describe themselves:
    We use mp3 audio technology to produce historic tours of Savannah, Georgia. Once posted to our website, the tours are downloaded to iPods, mp3 players, or cell phones for convenient playback. iTour Savannah combines technology and tourism to create a unique and contemporary way to explore Savannah.
  • Flickr: Photos tagged "savannah"
  • Blog Savannah: Group blog about Savannah. Has a good list of Savannah blogs. (But, I can't seem to access the site right now.)
  • Savannah Weather: 73 degrees on Monday! (62 on Saturday.) Folks flying in from Hawaii bundle up!

See you soon!

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:34 PM | | Comments (0)

January 4, 2007

Georgia's oldest city

villes-savannah-rue-etats-3975.jpgIf this is your first trip to Savannah, or even if you've been there before, you're in for a treat. This beautiful city is rich with art, culture and a particularly interesting history. The combination of the classic architecture, massive live oak trees draped with moss and the stately squares dotted throughout the historic district gives Savannah quite an air of sophistication and a feeling that the city has been through quite a lot. And it has ... thanks to General Sherman.

One of the best ways to really take in the sights is probably through one of the historic district's many fine tours. There are a number of different tours, both walking and carriage, ranging from tours of the historic squares and architecture, to spooky nighttime ghost tours.

Here are just a few links to get you started. We'll start with the more traditional historical tour offerings (some also offer haunted tours):


For those of you fascinated by the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil side of Savannah, there are at least as many ghost tours that can be found in the city: