Pittsburgh

We had a clear and sunny sky on Sunday, so we drove to Pittsburgh for the day. Pittsburgh is located where the Ohio, Monongahela and Allegheny rivers all meet. Downtown Pittsburgh has 15 major bridges crossing the rivers (with something like 720 bridges within the city limits). The rivers are the second busiest inland ports in the USA.

First stop was at The Strip - a street downtown with some cool shops and markets. We grabbed a coffee and biscotti (Pittsburgh is known for its biscotti, really just a biscuit)and had a walk around The Strip.

We then drove across the rivers to ride the Duquense Incline - a rail cart that takes you to the top of Mount Washington. There were some beautiful views from the top.

A cart going up the incline

The view

Looking down as we are going up

After riding the cart back down, we drove to the top of the second incline in Pittsburgh - the Monongahela Incline and walked around the top of Mount Washington. The views were really nice, and have been voted the second best views in the USA. Apparently these carts were used for the filming of Flashdance too!

You can see 4 of the 15 downtown bridges in this shot. Normally a water fountain would be running in the circle.

We rode the cart to the bottom of the hill to Station Square, and had lunch on the river front at a pub. We browsed some shops, rode back up to our car and went for a drive through downtown Pittsburgh.


We then went back to The Strip to get some fresh seafood for dinner (where Kristy and another unfortunate toilet experience - a Chinese lady thought she would like to share her bathroom shenanigans with me, but we wont go in to details!)


We then drove through the historic Mexican War Streets, which housed some really old town houses, before heading home and calling it a day.