As the hostel provides a breakfast included in the price we made sure to be there at 9 to make the most of it as when travelling you need to to keep the costs down! The breakfast was pretty good consisting of a man asking you to greet him in a language other than your native tongue then you could help yourself to bagels,bread,cereal,yoghurt,muffins and orange juice with a choice of cream cheese,peanut butter,butter and jam to compliment it all. Two bagels,some c...

We arrived to a sweltering hot D.C. around 16:30 then had to complete a walk of about a mile and a half but only after we had got the sun cream on as it was the hottest weather we had faced so far. The walk as you can imagine was tortuous in the heat with heavy backpacks and on the way a guy started talking to us as we crossed the road just asking where we were from etc then he told us he knew exactly where it was having been to Braintree!small world! We arrive...