Life's about experiences. These are mine.
As usual with our trips I take many more photos than I can upload while I am away. I have now uploaded the best of the many I have taken to my Flickr account but you can also see them below. Click on the thumbnail to expand. New York Washington
There are plenty of iconic sights in New York that people can recite without thinking but it is always good to find something a little bit unusual to do on a trip and today’s walk along the High Line was certainly that. The High Line is a stretch of disused railway that ran above the …
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Today we had earmarked for Central Park and nothing else. It was interesting to have seen it from the top of the Rockefeller Center yesterday. It is a very obvious rectangle that is “missing” from the otherwise jam packed city buildings. A green oasis in the middle of so much grey. In what is becoming …
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I had been adamant that we’d had breakfast included in the price of our hotel but it turned that that was not the case so we were left to find another (cheaper) alternative. Turns out that there are lots of Le Pain Quotidien’s over here and they do a reasonable pain au raisin. The ones …
Continue reading “New York & Washington ‘19 – Day Three – Top of the Rock”
When you come to such a well known city as New York there are many things that you simply have to do and then there are the place that others say that your simply have to do. Everyone agrees that the Statue of Liberty is one of those things that you simply have to do …
Continue reading “New York & Washington ‘19 – Day Two – Brooklyn and the Staten Island Ferry”
I’m very excited as this time our travels take us back to the USA but this time to a new destinations in the shape of New York and Washington DC. These have been on our bucket list for a while. Actually, to be honest, only New York was on the list but the more people …
Continue reading “New York & Washington ‘19 – Day One – Sterile Environment”