Hello everyone and welcome to another “Being a Tourist In:…” post! Thanks for coming back to Allison in Wonderland on the 4th of July! I hope you’re looking forward to your plans for tonight and have a blast watching the fireworks – they’re my favorite part of today! It’s so exciting that the warm weather and sunshine are in full-swing and I’m thrilled that I have the opportunity to live in such a beautiful place for the summer. I’ve been living in Annapolis for the last month or so while I’m working at my internship and it’s been such an incredible experience! With driving to and from Annapolis every weekday last summer for my internship, I really wanted to be able to live here full-time this summer so I could cut down on the long commute time and also figure out if this is where I want to live and work after I graduate. I’m graduating from James Madison in December, so it’s coming up quickly! Luckily, we were able to find a gorgeous, short-term apartment and everything has worked out really, really well so far. Throughout this post, I’m going to take you through a few of my favorite, local places in Annapolis so I hope you enjoy!
The first place I’m going to share about is a restaurant called the Iron Rooster. I had never heard of this restaurant until over the winter when my bosses took the department out for a holiday brunch. It was so nice of them to do that – it was absolutely delicious! And I unknowingly drove past it every single day! The Iron Rooster specializes in breakfast/brunch and it just so happens that those are my two favorite food categories! It has a very rustic interior and the staff is as pleasant as could be. I definitely recommend getting the big waffle, it was delicious!
The second place on my list is the entire area of downtown Annapolis (which is where the Iron Rooster is located as well). The cobblestone streets are just gorgeous and it’s the perfect mix of small town and city. There are tons of interesting shops to visit and there’s history everywhere you look! Downtown is right next to the water so you get quite a view on both sides.
My third recommendation is a little shop called Sadie’s Flower Shop and it’s just the cutest place! I noticed it driving home one day last summer and immediately needed to go. It’s the tiniest building right along the road and it only says Flowers across the top, so it took me a long time to figure out what it was actually called but it would definitely be a must on my list if I was visiting Annapolis for the day.
Another one of my favorite spots to hit on the weekends is the Anne Arundel Farmer’s Market. We just went for the first time a couple weekends ago and it was super cute. There were a ton of fruit and veggie stands and the people were really nice! It was such a fun thing to do to get our weekend started on a Saturday morning.
Lastly, my absolute favorite area of Annapolis is a section called Eastport! Both my apartment and the company that I intern at are in Eastport and it’s the coolest. It’s right next to downtown Annapolis, across a tiny drawbridge, and it has so many fun, unique features to it! There are coffee shops all around, marinas at almost every block, and it has it’s own park called Quiet Waters. My boyfriend and I love going to Quiet Waters on the weekends for a quick hike or to take some food and sit by the water. Eastport has all the perks of downtown Annapolis but it’s just a bit quieter and I love it! I don’t think we could’ve chosen a better place to live. Plus, there are a ton of cute locations to take OOTD photos!
Those are all the recommendations I’m going to write about today but I have a ton more so let me know if you’d like me to do a “take two” of this post at the end of the summer! Thanks for taking the time to read all the way to the end and I hope you have a wonderful week! See ya next time!
