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Easy Getaway Charleston
The historic Southern city embraces newcomers with Colonial charm and a quirky slice of modern life below the Mason-Dixon line
By Ted Loos
ShermansTravel.com
April 5th, 2010
The very best welcome I received in Charleston, South Carolina, came not from a friendly resident – although there are plenty of those around – but from a ceramic plaque hung on the door of a local bed-and-breakfast labeled “Shalom Y’all.”
This salutation, courtesy of the all-kosher Broad Street Guest House (133 Broad St.; 843-577-5965; www.charlestonkosherbedandbreakfast.com) – probably the city’s only such specialty lodging – summed up a lot of the qualities that I like about Charleston: funny, unexpected, and inviting in equal measure. And it demonstrated that whatever my Yankee preconceptions were about this stately seat of the Deep South, Charleston was ready to topple them.
The very best welcome I received in Charleston, South Carolina, came not from a friendly resident – although there are plenty of those around – but from a ceramic plaque hung on the door of a local bed-and-breakfast labeled “Shalom Y’all.”
This salutation, courtesy of the all-kosher Broad Street Guest House (133 Broad St.; 843-577-5965; www.charlestonkosherbedandbreakfast.com) – probably the city’s only such specialty lodging – summed up a lot of the qualities that I like about Charleston: funny, unexpected, and inviting in equal measure. And it demonstrated that whatever my Yankee preconceptions were about this stately seat of the Deep South, Charleston was ready to topple them.
