Blogs from Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, North America - page 204

Monday morning I woke up, after sleeping in past my intended wake up time, quite sore from the miles we walked the previous day, but refused to let that hinder me from walking the same amount or more for the second day in a row. My Swiss friends were off to work and so I was solo today. I arrived at the same central bus station as the day before and felt I had good bearings right away. I headed the opposite direction from my walking tour the day before, planning a walk in the general direction of MOMA, which was my final destination. The first sight of the day was Bryant Park with its lunch time ice skaters enjoying some outdoor exercise; there was a mix of people enjoying the opportunity, including those dressed in ... read more

After a bout of freezing-get-your-coats-out-folks-we're-snowed-in-til-March weather, it's suddenly turned really warm again. I can wander freely around the city wearing a jumper and still be warm (note: yes, this is in addition to other clothes. No silly comments please!). This was of course remarkably handy when it was decided that Saturday was going to be a night out on the town, venturing out to 40-40, the favourite haunt of my flatmate Lydia. I'd heard rumours of ghetto-like suuroundings and that I would be the whitest person there, but after having survived the Kings Pharmacy Ball earlier on this year, I thought I'd give it my best shot (after all, I did learn how to dance to bhangra). That didn't really happed though. The plan was that Kate, Jenny, myself, Kate's friend Cecily from school (she was ... read more

Ok, so it was a round-trip of Manhattan island, but considering all of the communities and the ethnic microcosoms crammed into that 23 square miles, it's almost a trip round the world. I decided sometime in the middle of last week that I'd been spending far too much time piddling around New Jersey and not enough time actually seeing Manhattan itself. Sure, I spend every single day traveling in and out of the place, walking past the Empire State and the Chrysler buildings, but for some reason I just don't feel like sightseeing at 8:15 in the morning. Or 6pm for that matter (it's dark by 4pm now anyway, boo!). Instead I decided to dedicate my precious weekend to the pursuit of looking like a geeky tourist and seeing a bit more of this infamous city. ... read more

Dear All, We left DC on the morning of the 4th November with Jeff and met Julian at the halfway point to Hershey PA. From there we drove through some of the most beautiful countryside we have seen so far. The autumnal colours were out in full force and the Appalcians looked amazing. Pennsylvania has some of the most wonderful countryside and is the perfect place to view the Fall in all its glory. We arrived at Julian and Jeanettes' beautiful house in Hummelstown and had a quick lunch before Jeanette took us on a drive of the local area. One of the most impressive things we saw was the school run by the Hershey Foundation. They have set up housing, and a fully comprehensive education for children from troubled backgrounds. That evening we were surprised ... read more

As I left off saying, Milwaukee was our next stop, however, because of the atrocious Monday morning Chicago traffic mixed together with the fact that we didn't know what the hell was going on it took us a good 3 and a half hours to arrive at Sussex in Milwaukee. The company we visited was called Autologic and they develope and sell gas anylizers and smoke meters among other things. We only had a 2 hour window to receive a quick rundown on the equipment we wanted and it was straight onto the Hwy again for Milwaukee airport heading for Cleveland. Our flight was originally scheduled to leave Milwaukee at 6:55pm but that was not to be (AGAIN!!!) due to the air traffic control and about 3,000 planes in cue on the tarmac! We eventually arrived ... read more