I've never seen the movie version of 9 to 5, and all I really know is that it starred Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Dabney Coleman, and had a title song by Parton. In the musical version, the roles are now played by Allison Janney, Stephanie J. Block, Megan Hilty and Marc Kudish, and the title song starts off the show and sets up the women's stories. And that's part of my problem with the show, too much set up. Half of the first act is spent showing the women meeting and how bad things are under the reign [View Full Entry]

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"Throw a shrimp on the barbie!", chant the Yanks as we Aussies cruise their streets with our funny accents and insistence on the term 'prawn'. Little do we know just how exotic the whole BBQ concept is to New Yorkers. In a city where gas bottles are outlawed, there's only so much one can chargrill over a mound of coal in less than an afternoon. Why would you bother? Real New Yorkers don't. 24-hour availability of every conceivable fodder tends to negate the need for effort, whilst killing a little of the magic too. But for some reason the lip-smacking, mouthwatering [View Full Entry]

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Saturday, 13 June (Empire State Building): We left the KOA today basically just to go up the Empire State Building and jog in Central Park. After driving the 15 or 20 miles to Beacon to catch the train to NYC, we parked and ran for the train, that left just seconds before we reached the platform. The next train wasn’t due for about an hour, so we headed back to the car. On the way, a guy stopped us to ask if we had tickets. Being stupid tourists, we thought the two tickets marked $15.50 each that he’d sell us for [View Full Entry]

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Friday, 12 June (Philadelphia KOA to NYC KOA via Statue of Liberty): We left the Philadelphia/West Chester KOA a bit after 8am , and after another couple of glitches in the GPS routing, arrived at Liberty State Park in New Jersey. Parking was $7.00 and the final road in was made of cobblestones and VERY rough! The ferry terminal is attached to an old railroad terminal and kind of neat. They have snacks, drinks, restrooms available both in the terminal and on the ferries. We had bought tickets online for the noon ferry, but arriving at 10:30am we asked if we [View Full Entry]

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I may be a little bias, but it is New York City after all. I lived here for a little bit after graduation. Let's just say that it is humanly impossible to ever be bored in NYC. There is something happening all the time - sun, rain, snow, droughts. So my lovely wife and I visited in July 2007. Again just a long weekend, but a couple days none-the-less. We landed at Newark and took the subway to Manhattan and off course our Manhattan stop was right next to the once World Trade Center. So that was the first thing we [View Full Entry]

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Hoje eu vou escrever sobre a nossa mais recente viagem que fizemos no começo de Maio deste ano. Nós estivemos pela primeira vez em Nova Iorque nos Estados Unidos. Eu sempre quis ir nessa cidade mas para Brasileiros é um pouco complicado porque temos que ter o visto Americano antes de mais nada e isso nem sempre é uma tarefa fácil ou barata. Pra mim foi mais fácil porque como estou na Alemanha legalmente não tive que passar por todas aquelas etapas que normalmente eu teria que passar se eu tivesse solicitado o visto no Brasil. Eu solicitei o visto no [View Full Entry]

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Saturday, June 6, 2009 ~ First thing I did this morning was to go outside in Times Square with my camera in search of good coffee. I found one a few blocks away. I found it fantastic that the road in the center of Times Square and in front of our hotel had been blocked off and it was instead full of lawn chairs allowing persons to sit and enjoy the lights all around. The morning was sunny and beginning to warm and so I sat in the middle of Times Square and enjoyed my coffee. Quite wonderful indeed. Our plan [View Full Entry]

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It's true - NYC is the city that never sleeps! Construction work seems to go on to 1 or 2am in the morning. Then the locals hold their hand on steering wheel horns as a hobby for the rest of the evening! So Darren barely slept for four nights. But Anna, deaf in one ear managed OK. We visited the Statue of Liberty, Wall St, Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum, Macy's Dept Store etc. An enjoyable stay but very tiring! It rained cats and dogs on one day. [View Full Entry]

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Thursday, June 4, 2009 ~ Our flights do not leave Rome until around noon and so we're able to leisurely get to the airport. Our breakfast is across the street at The Yellow Bar and we enjoy a full English breakfast, as Jeff says, a heart attack waiting to happen. It does taste good though to eat eggs and bacon and all that stuff we had not been eating throughout Italy, plus I do love a grilled tomato for breakfast. Perhaps I should adopt that into my breakfasts at home. Back upstairs to finish packing our bags and work our way [View Full Entry]

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Remember Ross from 'Friends'? Remember his ex-ex-ex-wife Carol? Remember how she became a lesbian and remarried Susan? Well .... Susan walked past us in the street yesterday as we headed down to WholeFoods Market to gather our weekly sustenance. Thank heavens for Dave's finely-tuned obscure face recognition talent. Where would we be without Lesbian Susan? [View Full Entry]

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