Dining: 39 Rue de Jean, Tristan, Bubba Syles Deli - the Med Wrap was excellent
Sites outside of Charleston: Middleton Place - the gardens were pretty and would be best seen in March/April in full bloom, it was a rice plantation back in the day, the main house was burned down at the end of the Civil War but the side house can be toured as well as the stables with 2 friendly goats; we took a Sunday morning walk on Folly Beach.
Sites in downtown historic Charleston: Calhoun Mansion - the current owner, lawyer in DC, lives there and has filled the house with his own victorian antiques and then some, pretty soon he might need to be on a fancy version of Hoarders, the house was also used for interior shots of Allie's house in The Notebook; the Pink House - built in the mid 1690s as a tavern and brothel, it just has 1 tiny room on each floor and currently is a small art store; the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon - pirates were held there, 3 signers of the Declaration of Independence were imprisoned there during the American Revolution 1780 including Arthur Middleton (owner of Middleton Place), George Washington visited it in 1791, while there we also learned about the Swamp Fox. I've never been a history buff, but this trip made history fascinating.
Pictures from Middleton Place:
The house on the lake is where they kept the dairy products cool.
The statue was buried in the swamp during the Civil War and recovered when it ended.
The Battery.
