Seeing The Pittsburgh Sights

...Continued from yesterday:

   The view looking west from our hotel,

​...which was directly across the street from the Heinz History Center.

     The following morning, Saturday morning, our tour guide friend and her husband arrive at the hotel, and soon thereafter we set off on foot for our discovery of some of the good bits of Pittsburgh.
      Following our guide, we walked east from our hotel,

...past bridges,

...and hills.

​   I never knew that Pittsburgh had such a mountainous geography.

     Our destination was the Strip, the old historic factory district of downtown Pittsburgh which is now lined with markets of numerous ethnicities, shops, and eateries.

    We ventured into a huge, crowded fish and meat market called Wholey.

   I, for one, was most captivated by the display of  pastries outside an Italian market.

    Tom and I, of course, partook of a few.

    After our tour of the Strip we walked back to our hotel with our purchases,

...and when lunchtime rolled around our guide drove us to the lunch destination she'd chosen for us, a repurposed old church,

​...now a restaurant and brewery  called The Church Brew Works.

   The interior was magnificent,

​...and fairly filled with diners.

    What used to be the altar was now part of the brewery.

    We got our table and our drinks, then raised our glasses.

   That is to say, I couldn't raise my diet Coke because I took the picture, but I verbally joined the toast anyway.
​     The food was outstanding.

    Tom and I ordered the Philly Cheese Steak which, while it wasn't the genuine article (nor did I expect it to be), was close enough and really good.  And while our fries were hot, crispy and muy tasty,

​...the home-made chips that my friend got with her wrap were so over-the-top delicious that the next time I come to this place - there will be a next time! - I'm definitely ordering the chips.

    After lunch our tour guide friend drove us through the city,

...then parked at the summit of a very steep neighborhood,

...from where we walked to an overlook that offered some splendid views of the river and the city below.

    We then walked to the Duquesne Incline,

...a funicular that runs up and down the hill, 

​...the ticket office of which is also an Incline museum.

    After we'd finished seeing the sights at the top of the hill we walked back to our car then returned to our hotel, where the considerate staff had set out some nice snacks in the lobby.