I have just finished reading Ken Follet's "A Place called Freedom".The major part of story revolves around Virginia and Colonial Williamsburg.I get deeply engrossed in the literature which is set up in the areas which I have visited or lived.This happened with this novel too.I could visualize each and very place mentioned there. This made me recall my Colonial Williamsburg visit which happened few years ago.Though I am not able to place my photographs but this visit is still fresh in my memory.I have taken few photographs from internet(Photo credit link at the end of post).
This place is so romantic and vintage that the moment you place your 
foot in Colonial Williamsburg, you get transported to 18th century in no time. You want to get into corsets and long flowing dresses and ofcourse hats.
A ride in a horse drawn carriage takes you back into time.The stroll in the main street and a peek into houses gives the account of how people used to live at that time. The clean low white fences surrounding the houses are very picturesque.
Everything has been preserved so well.Visit to various retro shops gives you glimpses of how businesses were carried out at that time.You will come across people dressed in vintage clothes enacting lives from colonial past.It is the living history museum.
As the day gets closer to twilight ,you can see the streets illuminated by lanterns.Walk in the street in the evening gives you quite an eerie feeling. It somehow gives you the feeling that you might be having ghosts walking by your side! There are many ghost sighting stories associated with Williamsburg. Fortunately I did not bump into one but that eerie feeling did not leave me for quite a long time!
My evening was wrapped up by watching 18th century play in theatre.It was a sheer delight seeing the actors submitting to the encore cheers of audience.
Photo Credit links:
photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hbarrison/2463602185/">HBarrison</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a
photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_g_travels/1235957400/">Mr G's Travels</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a
photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vamcmag/10819607435/">MizGingerSnaps away...</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a
This place is so romantic and vintage that the moment you place your foot in Colonial Williamsburg, you get transported to 18th century in no time. You want to get into corsets and long flowing dresses and ofcourse hats.A ride in a horse drawn carriage takes you back into time.The stroll in the main street and a peek into houses gives the account of how people used to live at that time. The clean low white fences surrounding the houses are very picturesque.
Everything has been preserved so well.Visit to various retro shops gives you glimpses of how businesses were carried out at that time.You will come across people dressed in vintage clothes enacting lives from colonial past.It is the living history museum.
As the day gets closer to twilight ,you can see the streets illuminated by lanterns.Walk in the street in the evening gives you quite an eerie feeling. It somehow gives you the feeling that you might be having ghosts walking by your side! There are many ghost sighting stories associated with Williamsburg. Fortunately I did not bump into one but that eerie feeling did not leave me for quite a long time!
Photo Credit links:
photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hbarrison/2463602185/">HBarrison</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a
photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_g_travels/1235957400/">Mr G's Travels</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a
photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vamcmag/10819607435/">MizGingerSnaps away...</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a
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