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                <title>Airport transfer: Washington Flyer Taxicab</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Until the Metrorail services are extended to serve Dulles airport, the most immediate and sensible option for those travelling to the city is an authorised Washington Flyer Taxicab costing around $50.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Washington Post</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Friday’s Weekend section in the Washington Post, or the weekly City Paper.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Tabard Inn</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It’s downtown and near the social centre of Dupont Circle, but it also on a quiet street and has preserved an old-world bookish feel that is rare in America. It has a pleasant lounge with an open fire in winters that feels like the common room of some old college, and a very decent restaurant. A room is about $100.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mixtec</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Great authentic Mexican food at very low prices.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Trolley bus</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Its best to walk but if the heat is overpowering, there are old-fashioned trolley buses roaming around the city that will take you around the monuments and into Georgetown.]]></description>
                
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                <title>C&amp;O Canal</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Join up with the C&amp;O Canal in Georgetown and within a hundred yards you’ll forget you’re in a city. The canal goes north-west for miles, as you follow the towpath under a canopy of trees.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Air and Space Museum</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Take the kids to the Air and Space Museum and take in an IMAX movie there.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Rock Creek Park</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Stretches from one end of the city to the other, widening as you travel northwards. It is full of forest paths, streams, woods and meadows. Deer roam through the undergrowth and the occasional coyote has been spotted.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Dumbarton Oaks</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A beautiful stately home, which is also a museum of pre-Colombian art, surrounded by an Italian garden hidden, all behind a high wall in Georgetown. A perfect place for an afternoon stroll.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Tidal Basin</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A stroll around the Tidal Basin to the Jefferson monument. Sit on the steps, look away from the nearby motorway and across at all the cherry trees clustered around the water. At cherry blossom time in late March early April, it is spellbinding.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bad T-shirts</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[All the T-shirts claiming the wearer is from the FBI or CIA or on a witness protection scheme.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Phillips Collection</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It’s a small private art collection so you have to pay, but it’s worth it. It’s stuffed full of famous modern masterpieces but the size is more manageable than the National Gallery. There are famous post-impressionist and cubist works, and a few nice Rothkos.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Political memorabilia</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Get some political memorabilia like a Kennedy badge or a Nixon poster from the 1960s, or a Clinton-Gore sticker from 1992. There’s a shop that sells the stuff in Union Station, which is worth a few hours in itself.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Stroll along the Mall</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Stroll along the Mall stopping at the all the free museums and the fabulous National Gallery of Art along the way.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Crab Cakes</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Get them broiled not fried at any number of places. The Daily Grill on 18 and M is as good as any.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Mayflower</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[One of the traditional great hotels of Washington. It’s where visiting dignatories tend to stay, and where Monica Lewinsky holed up during the Clinton impeachment saga.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Latham Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It is hidden down a small driveway off Georgetown’s bustling M Street. Perfect if you want to make Georgetown your base. It is best known for hosting Citronelle, one of Washington’s most famous restaurants.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Arlington Cemetery</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[For a standback view of the whole city, cross the Potomac river and climb the hill at the national military cemetery. On the way you can pay your respects at JFK���s memorial.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Palm Steakhouse</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Do the Washington power thing and eat a traditional aged steak among the political power players. The walls are decorated with caricatures of all the famous politicos who have dined there over the ages.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Face-Time by Erik Tarloff</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It’s very Clintonian era, but no one has a written a decent Bush period novel yet.]]></description>
                
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