After we took the carriage ride through old Charleston, we walked back to the Charleston Marketplace. Lots of tourist items to take home from a vacation—nothing to use in a motor home. We looked at the sweet grass woven baskets, but was amazed at the prices. Guess we were spoiled from our trip to the Copper Canyon and the baskets we were able to buy in Mexico. The bigger sweet grass baskets were in the $100 to $300 price range!
This lady happened to be selling her baskets on the street while we were walking, but there were a lot of basket sellers in the Market Place. It was lunch time by the time we walked through the Market, so we stopped at “The Crab Shack" for lunch. We asked one of the waitresses for a good place to have fresh Oysters and she told us that the cheapest and best was a place called “Pearlz.” They have a special for happy hour of one dozen raw oysters for $6.95. What a bargain!
Off we went to do a little more exploring on foot. We went through a couple of the old homes in Charleston. One had been restored and the other was just being kept in it’s original state. Both were interesting to see because of the contrasts. The restored home had period furniture, but the other home had original pieces that were left as they were found. You can imagine what some of them looked like after 100 years. We were not allowed to take any pictures inside either of the homes.
By the time we walked the streets of Old Charleston, we were ready to sit down and enjoy our treat of raw oysters.
Finding a parking place downtown is difficult. We parked 2 blocks away from Pearlz and on the way to the restaurant we walked by a smoking shop. I’d never seen a store just devoted to smoking—mostly cigars.
This is for all you guys!
At least the chairs look comfortable and the atmosphere is very relaxing. I could smell the cigar smoke all the way to the street!
The walk to Pearlz was worth it. What do you think?
We splurged and got two platters of oysters on the half shell. The first picture is of the combination. It had oysters from six different areas, and six different flavors. (I didn’t know oysters came in flavors!) Some were sweet and some were salty. Some came from the state of Washington!
We figured that with all the oyster shells used in building (even used in the concrete) that this had to be a good place to have fresh oysters. It was.
The last picture is the special for $6.95. Twelve large oysters on the half shell. All were wonderful, especially with the corn and clam chowder soup we ordered! A memorable anniversary dinner.
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