Blogs from Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, North America

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Tuesday We took the 10am Megabus out of South Station to New York. I managed to dash on the bus and get the front seats on the top deck which had a great view and helped alleviate any travel sickness. The bus had free wifi and power outlets so we spent the 4 hour ride on the Internet. We arrived in New York at 2:30 to rain. Lots and lots of rain. We grabbed our coats from our cases and started walking up from 27th Street to 45th Street. Our hotel, Hotel St James, was right next to Times Square. We made it there, soaking wet, and checked in. We were in room 301. We headed up to the room to check it out. It was a great size considering our location and the bed and ... read more

Reading my most recent reviews, one might get the impression that I have not liked anything this year. But that would be incorrect. In fact, I really liked 3 different shows, so I'm going to discuss them for a bit.... The first, unfortunately, you will not get a chance to see, because Leap of Faith was a victim of the fierce competition for ticket buyers' money and had its last performance today. The show is based on the Steve Martin of the same name, concerning a con-man/preacher stuck in the small town of Sweetwater, Kansas and pitching his revival tent to scam the locals. The conceit of the show is that we, the audience, are attending a revival meeting at the Saint James Theater in NY and being told the preacher's story in flashback. This allows ... read more

MATTHEW We were back on the bus tours again, except with a different tour guide this time, whose name was Sean. He took us to see the 911 Memorial. The waterfalls sits where the twin towers once stood and they're huge. There were too many names in the memorial. We saw a tree which oddly enough survived the attack, of course it had the old top part of it blown off, but it started to re-sprouted so now you can see a line where the old part is and the new part. In New York they have so many taxis including water taxis - which are boats. We caught one of those and on the way to catch the boat we saw a navy aircraft carrier which was pretty cool. The water taxis took us out ... read more

We arose about 07: 30. The tour of New York City was due to start at 09:00. We went to a small restaurant next door to the hotel for breakfast. The coach tour took us on a tour of city making stops to look at ground zero and the Chelsea Market. The coach then took us to the pier to catch a boat tour up the Hudson River taking in the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline and other points of interest. We then got the coach back to the Beacon Hotel, but we got off at Times Square to make our own way back after walking for a while decided to take a cab as we were beginning to get a little weary. We book dinner at David Burkes Townhouse on our daughter’s recommendation. ... read more

MATTHEW On the second day I woke up covered in red bites and we didn't know what they were. We went to breakfast at a diner. After our breakfast we got on a double decker tour bus which took us around New York. We got off at Battery Park and I got my first look at Lady Liberty. We got tickets for the ferry to go to Liberty Island but the line was miles long so we decided we wouldn't go then as the ticket was valid for fourteen days so we had a while. We walked around up through some markets and down through Wall Street and got some pictures of the Bull statute (the front and behind it). We came to a dock where there were lots of 19th Century iron hulled sailing boats ... read more

MATTHEW Today we went on a bus tour with a few of Dad's work friends. Our tour guides name was Eddie and we drove around in a bus and we walked in a park called the High Line which is a wooden walk way built on a disused railway. We went to the Chelsea Meat Packing district and there was big well in the middle of it with water running down it that I couldn't see the bottom of. We saw the last standing part of the Twin Towers complex which was a bronze orb with the top blown off it. The original sculpture was meant to be the world because the twin towers were called the World Trade Centre. After we had lunch at an ice rink at the Rockefeller centre but it is only ... read more