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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>merigayle</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/72922/who-knows-philly#post_1987507"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>Come visit me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
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<p>The world's best vegetarian restaurant: <a href="http://www.horizonsphiladelphia.com/" target="_blank">http://www.horizonsphiladelphia.com/</a></p>
<p>Otherwise, I am not much help.</p>
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<p>I know you do not like museums BUT have you been here? <a href="http://www.collphyphil.org/Site/mutter_museum.html" target="_blank">http://www.collphyphil.org/Site/mutter_museum.html</a></p>
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<p>I really must get there some day (Mutter Museum).</p>
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<p>Muddy...if you want to run, you can do the 8 mile loop on Kelly Dr. starting at the Art Museum. Watch the scullers on the river at the rowing capital of the US. Of course, you can be a tourist and run up the steps to do the Rocky thing (they all do). Or, you can run in other portions of Fairmount Park, like the Forbidden Drive (no cars).</p>
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<p>For some funky bars and restaurants, go to Manayunk, or South Street, or anything around Drexel or U of P. I'd say take in a Phillies game, but there are no tickets available for the entire season. Oh, there might be standing room only, but I doubt it. Ride a bike up the Manayunk wall, where the bike race is. </p>
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<p>Take a tour of Eastern State Penitentiary. Totally UN-restored. Left as it was when they stopped using it. Very creepy place. <a href="http://easternstate.org/" target="_blank">http://easternstate.org/</a></p>
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<p>Hit up the Reading Terminal Market for some food and interesting stores. There's lots of brew-pubs in the area.</p>
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<p>If you'd like to see some US history. Liberty Bell. Constitution Center (really nicely done). US Mint (no cell phones with cameras). Independence Hall. Franklin Court (ruins, diggings of Ben Franklin's old residence). Betsy Ross house. Carpenter's Hall. Christ Church and the Christ Church Burial Ground (Ben Franklin and some other Declaration of Independence signers). Penn's Landing (nice place to hang out on the river). Elfreth's Alley (oldest continuously occupied street in America). Not sure how interesting this would all be to a Canadian.</p>
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<p>It is a shame you don't like museums, because there are a lot of them.</p>
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<p>The aquarium in Camden is OK. You could take the ferry from Penn's Landing across the river. There might be a concert at the Susquehanna Center in Camden that weekend. A nice out door venue. Mostly rock concerts and younger folks there (teens and 20-somethings). The battleship USS New Jersey. By the way, other than these three places, there is nothing else in Camden you would want to see. Ok, there's a 4th. Maybe take in a Camden Riversharks baseball game (minor league, inexpensive, safe, family fun).</p>
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<p>There are the occasional concerts on the Festival Pier on the Philly side of the river.</p>
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