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NEIGHBOURHOODS
NOT TO MISS
From jazz to politics …
to the ‘town that fooled the British’
WASHINGTON, DC
– U Street is back in favour
as one of DC’s trendiest
U STREET shopping areas and, on
When the President visits your eaterie, you know you’ve got weekend nights, is abuzz with
it made. So when President Barack Obama called into Ben’s life in its bars and clubs.
Chili Bowl, it not only highlighted the restaurant but also Ben’s Chili Bowl, Washington, DC
turned the focus on Washington’s U Street neighbourhood. GEORGETOWN
T_h e centre of the city’s African-American nightlife for much of Historic, hip Georgetown is where JFK proposed to Jackie
the last century – as well as the birthplace of Duke Ellington (in Martin’s Tavern) – and no wonder. Its trendy boutiques,
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Spa Creek,
Annapolis
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