NYC: Lower East Side

A little email back and forth with Richard led to us having lunch (unfortunately not with him) at a place of his recommendation: Spring Street Natural. It was a busy restaurant, but we were soon seated and I ordered some lovely scrambled eggs mixed up with salmon, broccoli and peppers with a side of fries. [...]

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NYC: Seaports and bridges

On our penultimate day in New York we made South Street Seaport our first stop in order to buy theatre tickets for the evening. We joined a long queue in the sunshine with everyone else who’d had the same idea. Ticket touts were going up and down the line advertising their wares, assuring everyone that [...]

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NYC: Bullocks

After filling up on delicious food, the next part of our Downtown Day was to visit the Charging Bull on our way home. It was a totally touristy thing to do and we were fine with that. Walking up Broadway to see the New York Stock Exchange, he was on our way anyway. He’s a [...]

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NYC: Battery Park and Pearl Street

Back on Manhattan island we hung out for a while in Battery Park in the early evening sunshine. Next to us a cartoonist was sketching a couple of little boys and a guy approached us offering us some sweets … which sounds exactly like the sort of thing we were warned about when we were [...]

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NYC: Ellis Island

Having sailed around the Statue of Liberty we were headed to Ellis Island and the Immigration Museum, housed in the Main Building. It’s a huge and beautiful place, built in 1900 and with areas now restored to their 1918 to 1924 appearance. From the moment you step off the ferry, before you’ve even collected your [...]

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NYC: Liberty Island

After a long, but fairly entertaining wait for the ferry to Liberty Island we finally boarded and set off across the water. The boat was fairly full, with lots of people upstairs for a good view. I settled on a bench by the window to take a photo or two, Suzy making a wonderful silhouette [...]

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NYC: Going downtown

This was our big day: lots of things to see and do in downtown Manhattan. We started by getting a cab to Ground Zero and the most helpful taxi driver of our trip took us to a convenient place to hop out and head to the observation walkway. To be honest Ground Zero is in [...]

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Landsberg am Lech

Our hotel in Germany wasn’t in the same town as the concert venue, not least because the concert venue was in a settlement smaller than our little village and didn’t have any places to stay. Well, unless you’re the artist of course and then you get a bed in the castle. Instead we took a [...]

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