The Big Apple - I just had a stopover of one night and one day to explore the capital on my way home. So I whizzed round like a crazy tourist on a tight schedule taking in the main sites...Grand Central Station, Statue of Liberty, Fifth Avenue (strictly window shopping only, just to see Saks and other famous shops), Times Square, The Empire State building, Central Park. I had bagels for breakfast, rode the subway, walked up Broadway at night with all the lights and billboards, (I tried to get a chinese take away in a cardboard pot but failed and ended up giving away the worst chinese I have ever had to a tramp sitting on a bench in Strawberry fields with a sign that said: Why lie? I just need a beer.), surprised the
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