Blogs from Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States, North America

Our cruise aboard Caribbean Princess to the Canadian Maritimes and Greenland was to sail from Brooklyn. This would be a first, sailing from Brooklyn rather than Manhattan. To reach Brooklyn, we drove up I-95 to northern New Jersey, then took I-278 across Staten Island and the Verrazzano Narrows bridge to Brooklyn. It was a raimy and gloomy trip, taking about eight hours. We stayed Sunday night at the Marriott Brooklyn Bridge. Dinner was found next door to the hotel, at Rocco's Tacos & Tequillar Bar, a popular neighborhood spot. Monday morning I took a walk around the block outside our hotel. The rain was gone and the sun now out! This was a very central location in Brooklyn. Passerby and transit busses reminded me of the scene looking out of our Loondon hotel two years before. ... read more

We’re now four and a half days into our seven day visit to New York City and so time to start this blog. We’ve also had a slightly quieter day today in an effort to give Terry’s sore feet a bit of rest. We arrived here last Monday after a very early (3:00am) start in Los Angeles, 6:00 am departure followed by a 5-hr flight to NYC. By the time we collected our luggage, caught a taxi and crawled through the heavy traffic at JFK it was probably about 3:30 pm before we reached our apartment in the Clinton Hill district of Brooklyn. Once again, we are staying in an AirBnB and chose to stay in Brooklyn rather than with the throngs of other tourists in Manhattan. Our apartment is lovely, a 1-bedroom affair in a ... read more

Despite my intentions to wake up early and have an AH/life discussion with Amanda and Noah, my exhausted body got the best of me and my intentions since its a "Build Day" today, which means we can sleep in a bit. Raffi handles making bacon and sausage and I handle making some pancakes for our team. Our host woman was very accommodating and helpful in her efforts to help us make pancakes and coffee. Our alum that is serving as our Affordable Housing tour guide arrives and we all stand in a circle and give him our name, where we are from, and our favorite K2C memory thus far. I believe I talked about watching my team ride into West PAlm, despite wanting to ride, and getting over myself and having a shift in perspective about ... read more

It’s amazing the difference a day makes. Tuesday has the sun out and it’s set to be a fabulous day in New York., no more wild weather from Hurricane Nate. Mum and I headed out early for a visit to the Empire State Building. We’ve been waiting for a nice morning to go up to the 86 th floor to check it out the 360 degree views we get of New York. We’ve been keeping an eye on the tower from our appartment window and love the different colours it lights up at night. It was blue for the Yankees baseball game and red, green and white on Columbus Day. We get a grest view of the top of the tower from our bedroom window. We decided to head to the American Museum of Natural History. ... read more

Montag, 22.08.2017: Heute ist der letzte Tag in Las Vegas und leider muss ich berichten, dass auch aus Plan B nichts geworden ist. Aus etwas Frust haben wir uns deshalb am letzten Tag noch Ocean’s Eleven angesehen und uns daran erfreut, wie das Bellagio ausgeraubt wurde! 😃 Ansonsten war der Tag ziemlich unspektakulär. Wir sind noch etwas in Venedig rumspaziert und dann mit unserem noch immer und wahrscheinlich auf ewig namenlosen Auto zum Flughafen gefahren. Um 23:10Uhr ging dann der Flieger nach New York. Für diesen haben wir uns beim Checkin einen Honeymoonbonus, nämlich die Notausgangsreihe mit viel Beinfreiheit rausgehandelt - allerdings nicht wissend, dass die Lehne dieser Sitze nicht verstellbar ist… Alles geht halt nicht… Ach ja und Vielen Dank liebes Universum, dass du uns als Erlebnis eine Sonnenfinsternis geschenkt hast. Leider hatte aber auch ... read more