U street, DC
OUT &
shopping
ABOUT
around the region
by natasha Lee
not only are the Capital region
shopping options plentiful and
O
f course, shopping on your visit is not just about
snapping up bargains. It’s also about sunny
afternoons spent wandering through historic
varied, the dollar exchange rate is
quarters, admiring locally-produced crafts and clothing in
funky boutiques, and stopping for a street-side coffee as you
so favourable you can – according
plan your next purchase.
If you arrive, like most people, through one of the region’s
to my bargain-hunters’ logic – also
main airports: Washington Dulles (IAD) or Baltimore/
claim to have saved more than
Washington International (BWI), you’re in luck. A few
days exploring the districts of Washington, DC, Old Town
you spent. Well, i managed!
Alexandria, Virginia, or Baltimore, Maryland, is the perfect
introduction to the region’s shopping.
As befi ts the nation’s capital, Washington, DC has an
excellent public transport system covering the city centre
MuseuM giFt shops and outlying suburbs. The quick and reliable Metro trains
Unusual and fun gifts in all price ranges can be found in
will whisk you around the main shopping hot-spots for
gift shops at museums and attractions. (If time is tight,
around $7.80 for a day pass.
remember you don’t have to queue up or pay the
DC’s answer to Rodeo Drive is the
entrance fee if you’re just visiting the shop.) Check
Chevy Chase shopping district (not named
out the International Spy Museum and the National
after the actor, it was here fi rst!) by Friendship
Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. In Baltimore
try the National Aquarium, Geppi’s Entertainment
Heights metro. Top designers like Gucci, Christian
Museum, the American Visionary Art Museum; and
Dior, Tiffany & Co, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo and
the US Naval Academy in Historic Annapolis. In Virginia
Ralph Lauren sit elegantly in a row, while on the other
head for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond and
side of the street the upmarket department store Neiman
the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk.
Marcus forms part of the three-storey Mazza Gallerie mall.
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