TUESDAY 25th September. Arrive at The Portland Square hotel at about 8pm pleased to see it is right in the centre of Times Square, have a walk to get the feel of the place and it's absolutely buzzing, the traffic, the yellow cabs and people of every colour. The skyscrapers look amazing all lit up and it's very hot, in the 80s. WEDNESDAY. Walk to Ground Zero, all the way down 5th Avenue, thro Greenwich Village and Soho to lower Manhattan. It is about 90f. Visit the Museum of the Native American and then onto the ferry to Liberty Island and also Ellis island where all the immigrants came to between 1892 and 1954. Took the Metro back to Times Square as we are too tired to walk all the way back, the Metro seems very
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