South Carolina, Charleston - Friday, May 31, 2019 - City Market & The Battery

I’m not a big shopper but seeing the Charleston City Market seemed like a must do thing. 

This place goes on for blocks.

They have a bit of everything here.  I particularly like the sweetgrass baskets.  I picked up a small one and asked the gentleman at the booth, who was working on weaving another basket, how many hours he put into one.  His reply was about 19 hours on the one you are holding.  That made the $135 price tag understandable but I still couldn’t justify a purchase.

Charleston Crab House is right across the street from the market.  No fried green tomatoes here but we were getting hungry.

We ordered a bacon wrapped shrimp appetizer and shrimp tacos entrée and split them.  Both were great.  The sauce on the taco was pretty spicy.  Greg tasted it first, but did he warn me? No, he just sat and watched what would happen when I took a bite.  It was actually pretty good once you got used to it.

Also across the street from the market were the French Quarter Shops.  We expected another area with lots of shops.  Nope, the three you see are it.

If you like patriotic themed clothing you need to check out Nine Line Apparel.  Their main store was located just down the street from the campground we stayed at in Savannah.  That location has a new coffee shop addition that looked pretty busy.

Byrd’s Famous Cookies has two locations downtown.

They have a free cookie tasting bar where you can sample all 16 varieties of cookies they make.  All of the cookies are small, crisp tea cookies and they are great.  I didn’t sample all 16 varieties – I may have had 8 (or 10).

We did make a purchase here after we checked the sodium count which was really low for a baked good.

Beautiful buildings on our way to our next stop.

White Point Gardens on the Charleston Harbor.

There is a sidewalk along the harbor.  Parking is available for a two hour period.  Spots are pretty scarce.

Not much happening on the harbor this morning.

Some of the sidewalk is made up of what appear to be large slate slabs.  Sometimes the slabs wiggle, makes me nervous.

I got a good picture of us just after the cars around us left.

The historical homes along the battery are just amazing.

If you have a spare 7 million laying around, this lovely one could be yours.

Even the driveways are beautiful.

We will be leaving Charleston and heading to Gaffney, SC to go to the Freightliner Service Center for some checks and routine maintenance.  Since we couldn’t get an appointment we will just wait for them to work us in.  Not sure if we will be able to get out to sightsee so this may be my last post for a little while.