DESTINATIONS NORTH CAROLINA THE US LEFT:
Raleigh Beer
Garden RIGHT:
Durham Bulls
Athletic Park
BELOW: Biltmore Estate
Carolina on the breweries and barbecue joints alone. There are adventure stories in spades for those who want to explore North Carolina’s colourful folklore. Pirates terrorised the coast and bootleggers ran ‘shine’ from illegal stills during prohibition (which led to the souped-up cars designed to outrun the police that evolved into Nascar). Most famously, this is the auspicious site of the Wright brothers’ inaugural flight.
w SEE: HIPSTERS, HIKES AND HISTORY Raleigh: North Carolina’s capital is the place to explore the difference between Appalachian Mountain Panic Water and Kittyhawk Blonde, and other beers besides. Raleigh Beer Garden is the perfect start for a pub crawl, with more than
There are adventure stories in spades for those who want to explore the state’s colourful folklore
400 brews available. Recover at 42 & Lawrence and
Larry’s Coffee Lab with a nitro latte, or go for old-school grits at Big Ed’s City Market Restaurant, a Raleigh institution. Worth a trip too is the much-lauded Raleigh Denim factory, where jeans are hand-made on vintage sewing machines using locally sourced cotton. Durham: This ex-tobacco town, home to prestigious Duke
University and a thriving tech scene, thrums with cosmopolitan cool. A Durham Bulls baseball game is worth a trip if you can take the afternoon heat. Or if you want the largest collection of lemurs outside Madagascar (and who doesn’t?) the Duke Lemur Center can oblige – but make sure you book in advance. Asheville: North Carolina’s bohemian heartland is inhabited largely by hippies, hipsters and artists. The hill town’s streets are alive with the sound of music, bluegrass, newgrass and tattooed washboard-wranglers. More than anywhere, this is
a place to wander round and absorb the local vibe. Tour the Moog electronic instruments factory for extra cool points. The grand gardens, winery and mansion of George Vanderbilt’s 3,200-hectare
Biltmore Estate, one of America’s biggest private residences, are tucked away in the surrounding mountains. Entrance starts at $40 for adults. OBX: The Outer Banks, or OBX to its friends, is Carolina’s real prize. A slender bracket of windswept islands stitched together with sweeping bridges, it has a fascinating history. There are local tales of the Lost Colony – the earliest English settlement in the States, which mysteriously disappeared – or Blackbeard’s hideout in Ocracoke and the fabled wild horses still wandering the dunes, descendants of Spanish mustangs brought here by the earliest European explorers. Long stretches of pastel clapboard houses and saltwater taffy (toffee) stores line the busier towns, but there are more than 130 miles of coastline in
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