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Explorer's Guide Baltimore, Annapolis & The Chesapeake Bay: A Great Destination
The definitive book on the Chesapeake Bay, with a new focus on Baltimore, Annapolis, and Maryland's portion of the Bay area! Once again, travel writer and longtime maryland resident Allison Blake surveys the Chesapeake Bay area and its distinctive lodgings, aquatic adventures, and tucked-away towns. In Explorer's Guide Baltimore, Annapolis & The Chesapeake A Great Destination , the new version of her well-loved guidebook The Chesapeake Bay Book , Blake has also thoroughly explored from Baltimore (the colorful old port city that anchors the northern end of the Bay), to Maryland's 300-year old capital, Annapolis (known as America's Sailing Capital), south to the Potomac River and the Eastern Shore and onto the Virginia border. This is Maryland's Chesapeake Bay plus iconic Tangier Island, located in Virginia. This expansive guide will give visitors and residents alike all the information they need to fully explore and enjoy the thousands of miles of shoreline, the towns and cities, and the adjoining countryside of this lovely and historically significant area.
Whether you're interested in urban or outdoors adventures, oysters in a chic bistro of famous Maryland blue crabs on a paper-covered picnic table, pursuits like hiking, biking, boating, museum-hopping, or relaxing on a beach, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay has everything you're looking for.
As in every Explorer's Great Destinations title, you’ll find helpful information for lodging, dining, shopping, transportation, recreational activities, and special events. The focused and very helpful "If Time Is Short" advice, historical notes, and many maps and photographs make this an indispensable guide. Use it to help you discover all the Chesapeake region has to offer. history, lodging, dining, culture, recreation, shopping, transportation and more! Previous editions of this guide were published under the title The Chesapeake Bay Book . 100 black-and-white photographs and maps
Whether you're interested in urban or outdoors adventures, oysters in a chic bistro of famous Maryland blue crabs on a paper-covered picnic table, pursuits like hiking, biking, boating, museum-hopping, or relaxing on a beach, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay has everything you're looking for.
As in every Explorer's Great Destinations title, you’ll find helpful information for lodging, dining, shopping, transportation, recreational activities, and special events. The focused and very helpful "If Time Is Short" advice, historical notes, and many maps and photographs make this an indispensable guide. Use it to help you discover all the Chesapeake region has to offer. history, lodging, dining, culture, recreation, shopping, transportation and more! Previous editions of this guide were published under the title The Chesapeake Bay Book . 100 black-and-white photographs and maps
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318 pages, Paperback
First published June 14, 2010
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June 11, 2013
Better-than-expected guidebook to Baltimore, Annapolis, and the Eastern Shore. Good mix of the historical, the arts, and the outdoors. Thankfully, the author included more things to do than places to eat/stay (which seems to be the normal for so many guidebooks)--although the selection of places to eat felt comprehensive without being overwhelming.
The maps, though, needed some more detail, especially for the city/neighborhood maps. And some of the information has changed, which I know is a problem for guidebooks in general. So, should you ever go to Annapolis:
--Definitely park at the stadium: $5 for all-day parking is incredibly cheap BUT the Annapolis Transit shuttle is no longer free. It's $2 one way, so if you (a) don't feel like walking roughly a mile into town and/or (b) you're with a group of people who don't want to walk, it might be more cost-effective to park elsewhere, once you factor in the price of the shuttle.
--The downtown circulator trolley is free: look for the trolleys with "CIRCLE" on the front. You can take this trolley almost halfway to the stadium (before it turns around) if that's where you're parked.
--St. Anne's does guided tours on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month (9:30am-11am) AND the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month (12:30pm-2pm).
--The Annapolis Bookstore is a great, quirky little bookstore/coffeehouse tucked away by the USNA. Really friendly staff and good coffee.
The maps, though, needed some more detail, especially for the city/neighborhood maps. And some of the information has changed, which I know is a problem for guidebooks in general. So, should you ever go to Annapolis:
--Definitely park at the stadium: $5 for all-day parking is incredibly cheap BUT the Annapolis Transit shuttle is no longer free. It's $2 one way, so if you (a) don't feel like walking roughly a mile into town and/or (b) you're with a group of people who don't want to walk, it might be more cost-effective to park elsewhere, once you factor in the price of the shuttle.
--The downtown circulator trolley is free: look for the trolleys with "CIRCLE" on the front. You can take this trolley almost halfway to the stadium (before it turns around) if that's where you're parked.
--St. Anne's does guided tours on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month (9:30am-11am) AND the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month (12:30pm-2pm).
--The Annapolis Bookstore is a great, quirky little bookstore/coffeehouse tucked away by the USNA. Really friendly staff and good coffee.
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