big kahuna wrote:
jepvb wrote:
Chrysler Museum of Art
Nauticus - specifically take a tour of the USS Wisconsin
Take a boat tour of the Naval Base - largest naval base in the world. A very cool experience to see carriers and subs.
Waterside District - basically a huge bar on the water with great food vendors.
Stroll down Granby Street in downtown for shopping and food (I recommend Field Guide)
Stroll down Colley Avenue in Ghent - eat at No Frill Grill and see a movie at the NARO.
Botanical Gardens
Ignore idiotic comments from previous posters.
I was stationed in and lived in the Norfolk area at various times (mostly lived in either Chesapeake and Va Beach, and one of my undergrad degrees is from Old Dominion University :-). I second all your recommendations. .
I thought that with the exception of the northern Virginia D.C. beltway counties Norfolk and the wider Tidewater area was about as far removed from the idea of Virginia as the "South" as one could get. And the town had several excellent rock-and-roll and "college rock" stations back in the day. One of them had a morning radio personality named Henry "The Bull" Del Toro. Never wanted to miss that show. Good times, man. ;-)
FM 99 Rocks! I grew up listening to the Bull. Those were good times.
Norfolk and Virginia Beach are Navy towns - transient by nature. Both are working class cities with lots of diversity (Norfolk has a large African American population, Virginia Beach has a large Filipino and Asian community). Not the traditional "south" at all. You can drive south to rural VB or Suffolk and you will quickly feel like you are in Alabama, not that there is anything wrong with that. I love the mixed bag of cultures that this area offers.
I live at the oceanfront now. If it were summer, I would recommend to the OP a trip to the boardwalk. Depending on the weather, it may still be a good option.
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