WASHINGTON

ESCAPES TO WASHINGTON, D.C. — WHERE HISTORY, POWER AND DAILY LIFE SHARE THE SAME STREETS

Washington is not a city built around leisure — it is built around meaning. Monuments here are not decorative; they represent decisions, eras, leaders and turning points. You walk past the Capitol, the White House, the Supreme Court, the Lincoln Memorial — not as museum pieces, but as active symbols inside a functioning capital. Few cities let you stand inside the idea of a nation the way Washington does.

If you travel for context, for story and for significance — Washington is the right beginning.

The city’s everyday rhythm balances its seriousness:
– The Smithsonian museums with world-class collections and free entry
– Embassy-lined avenues and historic townhouses in Georgetown
– Cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin in spring
– Jazz clubs, bookshops, neighbourhood brunch spots and riverside walks
– Memorial steps turning into public seating at sunset

And Washington works well as a launch point. From here you can extend to New York, Philadelphia, Boston or Virginia wine country — or follow the Civil War trail south. But starting in D.C. gives you the framework: what the country stands on before you explore what the country looks like elsewhere.

It’s easy to see why travellers leave Washington with a changed sense of scale — it is one of the few places where national history and daily life overlap in real time.

Click here to explore Washington travel plans — and let us arrange a journey that gives you more than a checklist of landmarks, but a sense of where those landmarks still live in today’s world.