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Charm City Travel: Video Guides to Baltimore

July 14, 2008 at 1:45 PM | 2 Comments

The Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association has gussied up its website, adding all sorts of fun web tools. We're particularly big fans of the new videos, including this strangely compelling tour of the city.

Also available are older videos introducing you to Baltimore people like Cal Ripken, Jr. and David Simon, who explains that "The Wire" is a love letter to his hometown:

If you come from DC, you sort of have to admit you're not from a real place. You acknowledge that our food is better, that our beer is colder, that our neighborhoods are worth living in and that this is a city more real than yours. Once you do all that, you know, we're ready to embrace you!

More from Simon after the jump.

Related Stories:
· More Baltimore Videos [Official Site]
· Tourism Board Travel coverage [Jaunted]

Where: Baltimore, MD, United States

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  1. rdmcgeorge

    Jaunted Member
    July 14, 2008 at 3:20 PM




    Really?

    On Saturday I ate and drank in D.C., and on Sunday I ate and drank in B'more, and I have to say I disagree with Mr. Simon's defense of Charm City.

  1. thefrontrowe

    Jaunted Member
    July 14, 2008 at 5:23 PM




    Where did you eat and drink?

    I'd stand behind what David Simon had to say. There's a lot of places with a lot of character in Baltimore. There are varying scales of cuisine and watering holes from a top shelf place like Meli to pleasantly-dive-y Captain Larry's. I'd put the best of Baltimore up against the best of DC any day. You just need to know where to go.

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