The Windy City

Thats us spent a good 3 days in Chicago taking in the sights and sounds and what fantastic sights and sounds they are! The spiritual home of the Blues Brothers, some of the finest architecture in the world and all this with a freshwater lake including a few fantastic sandy beaches mean we haven't found ourselves short of stuff to do! I'll likely forget some stuff and add it in later but for the time being heres a breakdown of our Chicago break...

Saturday evening we got into the airport around 10ish. After maybe an hour and a half/2 hours on the L we made it do Davis station where we eventually found our hotel, The Margarita European Inn. Hotel is like something from the 1950's or perhaps a little earlier. The furnature and fittings are all quite retro and european which is a welcome break from the american style of "make everything bigger". Its pricey by the trip standards coming in at $160 a night between us which works out at about £30 a night each. Its a beautiful hotel and the evanstan area is lovely too so I dont really grudge paying it esp when the queen bed with candles that me and iain are sharing is so comfy :D Wait... it sounds worse than it is............ The hour on the L is a little longer than desired but to be honest I dont mind, its nice to see a bit of the inbetween, the everyday people going to work etc.

So the nigth we got here we just went to a local pizza place and got a huge pizza between us, there was a blues club down the street but it the main show had been on for an hour and even though it was going till 3:30am we were pretty tired and in need of some sleep. The next day we got on the L reasonably early (compared the following days :P) and headed into town for a stroll about.

** I've just realised a lot of what I've just said I said in the previous post about Chicago, its most likely because we've been nonstop since we got here but im going to put it down to Chicago being so good I want to talk about it twice.***

So we wandered around and got some dinner in irish chain bar/diner on michigan ave called Bennigans where I had a Guiness Glazed bacon burger and Iain manned up and took on the "Irish 1lb Burger" - impressive stuff.


After that we headed back up the magnificent mile to the John Hancock Centre:


** Just realised its 1pm and we haven't left the hotel. I'll upload some good pics and fill in the blanks later on. Need to go do some washing and then I want to go see the store where High Fidelity was filmed which is conveniently near a subway station! :)***





















Later.