Blogs from Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, North America - page 8

Kev agreed to look after Grace & Rupert while Kerrii & I went downtown to have a rummage around Macy's to see if we could find anything we might not be able to live without. Not much as it turned out; three bras for the price of two for me and a pair of tights for Kerrii. We both left the store thinking that we'd need to get the home dressmaking bug! From there we headed off to the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Centre at the Lincoln Centre to see the movie "Your Sister's Sister " starring Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt & Rosemarie DeWitt. Enjoyable and interesting but wouldn't rave about it although my friend Emily was great! The next day it was off to the Empire State Building with the family and an elevator ride ... read more

...a tropical heatwave...the temperatures rising...it's certainly surprising...that we're still walking around NYC...but we are! With sincere apologies to Irving Berlin! Kerrii, Seb & the kids were off to the movies today so we decided to head off on our own. First we walked down to the Carl Schurz Park - named after the German born Secretary of the Interior in 1910 - for a look around. The park is situated in what is known as Yorkville (where Kerrii & Seb live) and was originally a German-American community. The park is also the site of Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York's Mayor although the current one, Mike Bloomberg, doesn't live there. From the park, after walking back to 2nd, we caught a bus down to Battery Park. Talking to an elderly gentleman at the bus ... read more

There is some place in the world you just feel good. New York city always been special for me. The first time I went to Manhattan, I was stressed. Will it be safe? The bus dropped us just outside central park and we start walking in small groups. Some dogs were running freely not far from us and a bunch of people where watching some kids play baseball. We stop for an ice cream and kept walking, amaze by what looked unreal to us. It was about ten years ago. I was in high school and was going to live in New York for a little while to play Basketball. I still remember the weather and every single detail of that day. New York is the theater of dreams, the one and only. *** We were ... read more

It was an early start leaving Bogota; we were picked up at 5.30am for the drive to the airport and being a Sunday the traffic wasn't too bad enabling our driver to do 90 km in a 60 km area and that was just keeping up with the traffic! Once inside Bogota International Airport it was wall to wall people and before boarding our plane - which was over an hour late leaving - there were numerous security checks. Many more than there were when we arrived at Newark, New Jersey although the wait to get through was longer at Newark. So by the time our taxi pulled up outside our apartment on East 84th Street it was about 7pm. Nevertheless Sande, whose apartment we'd rented, was there waiting for us. And what a wonderful welcome ... read more

Well it was a late night as the kids stayed out at the teen centre sail away parties. Luke did not get in until 2.30am so it did not feel good waking up at 7.00am although it was nice to go out on the balcony and see our ship sailing up the Hudson River alongside Manhattan. We went to have breakfast together at around 8.00am not long after we docked at Pier 90. There were two other ships at this port being the Norwegian Star and a Hollan America ship (Veelam I think). We also saw the Queen Mary 2 docked in the Brooklyn area. It was another beautiful sunny day but stinking hot and it seemed the weather was going to be the same as it was when we left here a week ago. We ... read more