Friday
Some call it the town that never sleeps, others the capital of the world. I like to think of it as New York – The town that never bathes. If you intend on coming here please do so once you have lost your sense of smell. In saying that the place itself is awesome and the 3 nights we stayed there was never going to be enough time to see it all.
We arrived at our hotel late Thursday evening after our flight was delayed by about 40 mins (that makes up for all the ones that have gotten in early. The hotel was ok. In mid-town about 6 blocks away from the Empire state building and a block away from 7 or 8 Indian restaurants.. I was in my element.
We went to a Japanese restaurant for some sushi then called it a night. The plan for the next day was to get up super early and start our hop on/off tour from Time Square. Little did we know I have not mastered the art of setting an alarm clock and we woke up about 10am. This threw out our plans a little so we legged it to Time Square, got our bus passes and jumped on the first bus we could see.
The pass gave us access to a downtown & uptown loop, a tour of Brooklyn, a night loop of Manhattan and Brooklyn plus access to the Empire State building observatory, the Southport Sea Museum and a cruise to Ellis and Liberty Island.
We jumped off the bus at the World Trade Centre site a.k.a Ground Zero to have a bit of a look around. They are starting to build some new buildings there so most of it was closed off and you couldn’t really see inside. The church next to the site, where the NYPD & FDNY set up their base camp during the recovery was worth a quick 5 minute look. Here there are still shrines to those that were working in the twin towers plus there’s a chair that George Washington sat on at the first mass he attended after he was inaugurated (a bit random I know).
From here we walked down to Battery Park where the very first battery was ever made (if you believe that then I have lost all respect for you). Down here we lined up for about 30 mins waiting to go on the Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty Cruise. You have an opportunity to get off at the 2 stops but really the best photo ops are on the boat so we just sat there until it headed back. Took an hour all up so not too long that we would be missing out on anything else.
After walking past Gordon Ghecko’s old building we jumped back on the bus and I decided to do my bit for international relations with a trip to the UN. After brokering a peace deal between France and Italy (was quite hard as both sides were trying to surrender) we stopped at the Rockerfeller Centre so Jane could audition for ER. After realising that her acting is as good as my attempt at humour we looked around Central Park looking for Central Perk of Friends fame. Unfortunately it doesn’t exist but we got some great pics of the park with the city in the background.
The tour then heads back into Time square and it’s getting close to 5 so we find a dodgey Italian buffet, eat there then head out on the night loop. This takes in most of what we have already seen but it gives you some pretty good photo ops with the city lights and sunset etc.
Some call it the town that never sleeps, others the capital of the world. I like to think of it as New York – The town that never bathes. If you intend on coming here please do so once you have lost your sense of smell. In saying that the place itself is awesome and the 3 nights we stayed there was never going to be enough time to see it all.
We arrived at our hotel late Thursday evening after our flight was delayed by about 40 mins (that makes up for all the ones that have gotten in early. The hotel was ok. In mid-town about 6 blocks away from the Empire state building and a block away from 7 or 8 Indian restaurants.. I was in my element.
We went to a Japanese restaurant for some sushi then called it a night. The plan for the next day was to get up super early and start our hop on/off tour from Time Square. Little did we know I have not mastered the art of setting an alarm clock and we woke up about 10am. This threw out our plans a little so we legged it to Time Square, got our bus passes and jumped on the first bus we could see.
The pass gave us access to a downtown & uptown loop, a tour of Brooklyn, a night loop of Manhattan and Brooklyn plus access to the Empire State building observatory, the Southport Sea Museum and a cruise to Ellis and Liberty Island.
We jumped off the bus at the World Trade Centre site a.k.a Ground Zero to have a bit of a look around. They are starting to build some new buildings there so most of it was closed off and you couldn’t really see inside. The church next to the site, where the NYPD & FDNY set up their base camp during the recovery was worth a quick 5 minute look. Here there are still shrines to those that were working in the twin towers plus there’s a chair that George Washington sat on at the first mass he attended after he was inaugurated (a bit random I know).
From here we walked down to Battery Park where the very first battery was ever made (if you believe that then I have lost all respect for you). Down here we lined up for about 30 mins waiting to go on the Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty Cruise. You have an opportunity to get off at the 2 stops but really the best photo ops are on the boat so we just sat there until it headed back. Took an hour all up so not too long that we would be missing out on anything else.
After walking past Gordon Ghecko’s old building we jumped back on the bus and I decided to do my bit for international relations with a trip to the UN. After brokering a peace deal between France and Italy (was quite hard as both sides were trying to surrender) we stopped at the Rockerfeller Centre so Jane could audition for ER. After realising that her acting is as good as my attempt at humour we looked around Central Park looking for Central Perk of Friends fame. Unfortunately it doesn’t exist but we got some great pics of the park with the city in the background.
The tour then heads back into Time square and it’s getting close to 5 so we find a dodgey Italian buffet, eat there then head out on the night loop. This takes in most of what we have already seen but it gives you some pretty good photo ops with the city lights and sunset etc.
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