Baltimore is home to the USA's 3rd oldest synagogue still in its original property. Even though they were closed to the public today, thanks to family gonnections we were given a private tour of the Lloyd street shul, the Jewish museum and the Bnei Israel shul next door. Also in the Lombard Street area we popped into the Kibbitz Room at Attman's deli for a look see - we feasted our eyes only but let me tell you Carnegie Deli better watch out!
Down to Fell's point to check out the trendy restaurants and old harbour area there. While there we saw the building used as the main police station in "Homicide: Life on the Street". And if you're a fan of The Wire, plenty of familiarish buildings, the Domino Sugar sign, street corners and the dock area. To name drop a bit, La's cousin knows the creator of both shows (David Simon) and we saw where he lived before he was famous, and sort of also saw where he now lives. I am not a stalker, serious!
By this time I was starving (Baltimore crime dramas make me hungry) so we went to the American Visionary Art Museum and started with an awesome lunch in their restaurant. Then took in their current exhibition "What makes us smile". My personal favourites included a bench covered in self-re-inflating whoopee cushions and lots of postcard humour - a loosely paraphrased example being 'the sound of your snoring means I can fart'.
We left Baltimore City via the the street where artist Loring Cornish lives. He has turned his house into an incredible piece of installation art - the entire façade (And the one two doors down) have been totally covered with mosaic made from bits of glass and mirror. Apparently the inside is similarly decorated although today was not an open house day. Stunning.
Back for Friday night supper with La's cousins and aunty and friends. Shabbat Shalom everyone!
Morning, noon and night. Day 6.
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