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SAVANNAH – SOUTHERN BELLE

By night, River Street, Savannah, Georgia, is pumping. We eat there one evening and it’s busy with people strolling or pausing to read menus posted at the open doors of restaurants so they can make a decision. For there is plenty of that needed. This street has a slew of eateries – an oyster bar, a ‘shrimp factory’, Cajun places and others doing seafood, grills, a tavern, even a Ben & Jerry’s. One place, Bernie’s, boasts it does ‘the best bloody Mary in town’. 

Maybe. We choose Huey’s Restaurant instead and gorge on a Cajun platter that has it all: jambalaya, gumbo, cornbread, and etouffee (spicy crawfish) spooned over red rice and beans. We nearly burst, but hell, honey, we’re in the South!

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This article continues with details of Savannah then and now and  includes information on accommodation provided, the fabulous local food and cuisine, as well as things to do and places to see.

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'Georgia, Georgia.' You can't travel around this state without that bluesy song popping up from time to time. I find myself humming it as we drive through forests submerged in kudzu, an introduced plant-pest that is literally swallowing the south. And fast – it can grow 30 centimetres a day. I sing it too as we watch the sun set over the Savannah river; it popped out as we sampled those hot boiled peanuts.

I can't help myself. That is what Georgia does. It gets on your mind.

And while we don’t fall in love with the peanuts – I guess they are just an acquired taste – we still manage to finish them before we leave the state.

Savannah, however, that’s different. Love at first sight, it was, Mr Butler, sir.

©Sally Hammond 2007

Picture Credits: ©Gordon Hammond 2007

(Sally and Gordon Hammond travelled as guests of  Georgia Tourism)

 

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