Savannah on a Sunday

Today the sun rose into a clear blue sky. It was fresh, but bright.
Today we went back into Savannah to walk around a bit.
Parking is free on a weekend. We parked and started our DIY tour by going to the City Market - oh, it must be Coffee Time. We stopped at the Savannah Candy Store, which also sold coffee and cakes. Sally had, no, ordered, an apple muffin. I ordered a piece of Pecan Toffee Cheesecake, mmm, or rather, mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm and 'Can we have a box please, for the other half of the piece of cheesecake and Sally's muffin as well. It was enormous, I don't think that the woman could get more than five pieces from a full cheesecake, and it was about 4 inches deep, in five layers, separated by toffee, encrusted with sugar roasted pecans. Oh! was it good. AND, only cost $3.00 !!! The highlight of my holiday.

We strolled pleasantly down to the Riverside and looked at the river cruises, on the fancy (but false) paddle steamers. I noticed a little tug like boat tie up and Lo, it was a ferry (fond memories of the 'deal of the decade' when we took the Staten Island Ferry out of New York in 1978 for 25c). On enquiring the ferry across the Savannah River was Free! So we strolled down the riverside walk and then took the ferry back up the river. It was delightful and a great way to see the waterfront.
We started a short walk through the squares. Near to Oglethorpe Square is the Lewis Theater and we stopped for lunch at a fairly pretentious bistro on Broughton and Abercorn St. Continuing on we really appreciated the buildings that we saw, they were old and often beautiful. The highlight for me was Chippewa Square. It is here, on the north side that they filmed the bench scenes for Forrest Gump, very deep moment here. This was a very pleasant day, very relaxed.
We both have decided that we like Savannah a lot and would recommend it for a visit to anybody.