Went out for brunch this morning and then we wondered around the town a bit, took a train ride which shows all the sights in old St. Augustine. This city is the oldest continually inhabited city in North America. Founded by the Spanish in the late 1500's as part of their fortress protection for the Spanish ships heading back to Spain loaded with gold and jewelry etc taken from the natives in the New World. Very pretty town and very interesting. Lots of restaurants, and lots of things to see. We went and visited the fort Castillo de San Marcos - and did the tour. Entrance was free because this was National Parks week and the fort is part of the National Park. Want to get over to visit the Fountain of Youth and try out the water, see if it works. This city is the location and it was discovered by Ponce de Leon.
The City changed hands several times form the Spanish to the English to the Spanish and finally tot he US as wars were fought and won or lost as the case may be. St Augustine is also the location of the World Golf hall of Fame so we are going to visit it sometime while we are here.
Later on we had lunch and did some more wandering. They had an Easter Parade so we watched the whole parade. It was quite interesting and obviously had a Spanish motive as does the whole city, no marching bands though.
Looking down one of the streets
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