Charleston Trip: Nosin' around the neighborhood

I was a blatant tourist, I took pictures of everything. Some photos from our walk around the neighborhood we stayed in, near the Battery.







This is "fig leaf" it grows e-ver-eee-where in Charleston, it's hardy and I hope to transplant it somewhere here. Instead of loose ivy, using this as a patio wall covering would be the ticket.



Orange house, purple door. Looks like the fall colors in JCrew.



Paisley shrubbery.



Sky blue ceiling, painting the ceiling blue keeps the bugs away, they think it's the sky and continue to fly upward. Dumb bugs.



Shell Urn.

Charleston Trip: Fast & French

This small hole-in-the-wall, Gaulart et Maliclet Cafe, was my most favorite part of the whole trip. We ate a late lunch here and on the lunch menu your "value meal" came with sandwich, salad, and beverage - water, tea or house wine: red or white. America, I mean North Carolina should take this tradition on at all lunch counters, like their southern cousin, S. Carolina.

Source: fastandfrench.org via Adair on Pinterest

Not to mention, the interior was darling. No other word could describe it. A shotgun shape building - long and narrow - shared bar height tables, very simple. Maps, European posters and paper cardinals for decoration.