Milwaukee - The Metropolis That Beer Made Famous


It’s the urban nub beer made famous, breweries together with bars point the landscape. Our latest escapades provide us to the shores of Lake Michigan together with Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

After flight all hateful solar daytime on Southwest together with picking upward a Ford Escape from Thrifty Rent-a-car at the airport, nosotros eventually abide by our hotel, The Ambassador Hotel - Milwaukee, on Wisconsin Avenue following to Marquette University.

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The 3rd flooring room features a Rex size bed, a queen size sofabed, apartment concealment TV, wifi together with wired costless internet, basic moisture bar, robes, ironing board together with iron, accessible restroom featuring a barred bathtub amongst topographic point or gyre inwards shower.

Letty says it’s the close comfortable hotel bed she’s always seen.

Upon check-in, we’re offered a deal…$7.95 for breakfast vouchers. Seeing their site beforehand, together with knowing that breakfast hither went for twice equally much, nosotros snapped unopen to up. We’re glad nosotros did because breakfast is inwards their beautiful eating theatre amongst entrees such equally spinach omelets, pancakes, bacon together with eggs, together with delicious waffles covered amongst fruit served to your tabular array past times actual waiters. No warmed upward breakfast bar entrees here.

Our original argue for existence hither is to notch unopen to other signal for our seemingly never-ending bespeak to consider every Major League Baseball stadium. We receive got tickets for tomorrow’s game but today is for exploring the city. First up…as all our friends who receive got sense hither receive got been telling us…we receive got to larn to the Third Ward.


This is an quondam area, burned downward inwards a large post away long agone together with rebuilt into an Italian neighborhood, that is existence gentrified. While unopen to buildings are nevertheless waiting for their fourth dimension inwards the redevelopment spotlight, close of the expanse has been spiffed upward together with is abode to prissy fiddling boutiques, restaurants, bars, together with anchored past times the Milwaukee Public Market.

It’s besides the southward goal of the Milwaukee Riverwalk, a iii mile long accessible walk along the Milwaukee River that takes yous through the highlights of downtown.



We get-go filming (see the video above) together with presently meet unopen to other crew doing the same affair on the river side of the Milwaukee Ale House. It’s a swell walk that we’ll receive got total wages of later. Tonight, we’ll receive got dinner at Benelux, a eating theatre together with bar dedicated to all the proficient nutrient together with quaff of the European lowlands.

And what nutrient it is…Tim together with I receive got their real proficient burger served amongst Belgian frittes together with a beer palette (four beers served on a wooden palette) made upward of Belgian potent ales. Letty has the Fri fish tyke amongst Ichtagem’s sour ruddy Flemish ale.  That’s after a real tasty starter of white patato tots filled amongst brie together with accompanied past times a Sriracha garlic mayo dipping sauce. It is real proficient together with nosotros vow to come upward dorsum in 1 trial again earlier nosotros piece of occupation out together with dig a fiddling deeper into the menu.



An aimless trip southward of town takes us to St. Francis, abode of a large monastery, a bunch of bars, together with a prissy beach. It’s a prissy house to stretch our legs a little, receive got unopen to pictures, together with only relax earlier heading dorsum into town.


All inwards all, it’s a fun but brusk overview of the town we’ll endure spending the following iv days in. Stay tuned for to a greater extent than fun, drinking, eating, baseball, together with cheeseheads hither inwards what volition plow out to endure 1 of the best destinations we’ve been to.

-Darryl

Copyright 2012 - Darryl Musick
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Photos past times Letty Musick
Copyright 2012 - Letty Musick
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