USA 2023 part II - Philadelphia and New York City

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August 3rd 2023

Published: March 1st 2024

Rocky Balboa rules Philadelphia! Does Art Garfunkel rule New York? This blog entry covers the time we spent in Philadelphia and the days we spent in New York City. We start with Philadelphia. Rocky Steps One of the most popular tourist destinations in Philadelphia is the stairs up to the main entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. These stairs are also known as the Rocky Steps since ... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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The Amor Sculpture

A silly sculpture put there only for people to take photos of it

Decorated bridge

Swedish flag

A large number of national flags are put up along the boulevards in central Philadelphia. The flag is Swedish and is correct. But the tiny flag on the sign actually looks more like the Danish flag

Swedish themed café

This café has a Swedish theme. Probably the owners were inspired by the Swedish tradition of taking coffee breaks, or "fika" as we call it.

Odd map

Map of Sweden, so far so good. But they have wrong spelling on three of the places and the choice of locations they have decided to include is just weird

The Thinker

The Thinker is a famous sculpture by Auguste Rodin. This copy of the sculpture can be seen outside the Rodin Museum

Grand Central Station

Grand Central Station in Manhattan

Fallout shelter

A fallout shelter set up in case of a third world war

NYC stands with Ukraine

So do we

Central Park and Manhattan skyscrapers

Manhattan skyscrapers being reflected in a lake in Central Park. Roughly in the centre of the picture the Steinway Tower can be seen. At ratio 1:24 it is said to be the skinniest skyscraper in the world

Church in Manhattan

Little Island at Pier 55

Little Island at Pier 55 is a park built on an artificial island in the Hudson River.

The Stonewall Inn

The Stonewall Inn is a gay bar in Greenwich Village. The Stonewall riots in 1969 marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement and paved way for modern gay rights.

Sculpture outside the Stonewall Inn

Apollo theatre

Apollo theatre is a legendary theatre in Harlem.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

When we walked by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum we had to take a photo of the building

90 Bedford Street

In the TV series Friends the main characters live in this building

152-156 East 81st Street

Madonna lives in this house

9 East 79th Street

Art Garfunkel lives at the top floor in the building in the middle

Swedish fish

Why these sweets are called Swedish fish is a mystery to us

Something a bit funny at the end

We have saved something a bit funny to all of you who managed to make it to the end of the blog entry

3rd March 2024

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Thanks for sharing!

5th March 2024

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

You are welcome
You are welcome. Thank's for commenting. /Ake

6th March 2024

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7th March 2024

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7th March 2024

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7th March 2024

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10th March 2024

alex waring
Alexander Waring

Philly and NYC
Two very cool cities, nice to read about them again. It seems like you've been to New York many times in the past. It's such a dynamic city, it always amazes me how much more there is to see there year after year. The Little Island in the Hudson looks amazing, as does the very thin skyscraper. I also visited the Friends building when I was last there in 2022, but I couldn't find the Ghostbusters building... Such iconic memories from such an iconic city.

10th March 2024

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I also have to see the Men in Black building
We love New York and that partly explains why we have been there multiple times. We have also noticed that New York is a good gateway to visit other places in the region. Flight to NYC are sometimes so cheap that it is better to fly to New York and from there buy separate tickes to other places in North America or the Caribbean that to book flights that takes us to the destination without the extra stop. One building we have to see one day is Men in Black building. I think it is a power station or something. /Ake

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