Blogs from Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States, North America - page 4

Na początek muszę przyznać, że Nowy Jork jest dokładnie taki, jakim go zapamiętaliśmy, nic się nie zmieniło: charakterystyczny zapach miasta i metra, upał i lepki 'humid', smak i ceny hot dogów na Manhattanie... ;)) Jakbyśmy byli tu zaledwie wczoraj. Obowiązkowe punkty wycieczki trzeba jednak zaliczyć: zakupy (no bo przecież nie będziemy wieźć niektórych rzeczy z Polski, tylko kupimy sobie nowe fajne-amerykańskie ;p), Times Square nocą (o, tutaj jednak zmiana - stoliczki dla przechodniów na poszerzonym chodniku), Central Park, piwko na Greenwich Village i zachód słońca w Battery Park z widokiem na Statuę Wolności i New Jersey. / First thoughts of NY - the city hasn't changed, it's exactly the same we left it 6 years ago: the smells, taste of Manhattan hot-dogs, sticky humid. A lot of walking, strolling and shopping (of course).... read more

We learned our lesson after Friday's disastrous drive through Manhattan from LaGuardia. To catch our flight, we took the slightly longer route and drove through Staten Island and into Brooklyn. We gave ourselves extra time and left our hotel six hours before our departure time--just in case. The drive went much smoother with very little traffic. When we were just a few miles from LaGuardia Airport, we still had hours before takeoff, so we decided to stop for pizza. I'd heard Grimaldi's in Brooklyn (not far off from the highway) is a good place to try, so we decided to give it a whirl. It was lunch time, and there was a line of people standing outside Grimaldi's, waiting for seats to open up. While we really wanted to try some good New York pizza, we ... read more

I went out early this morning to get some tickets for tomorrow’s tour and to go to the Apple store to take advantage of the fact that their prices are lower here than in the UK. I got the subway to Time Square just to find that the meeting place for the tour at the top-end of Time Square was actually closer to where I had started. Coming back from Grand Central Station required a change of train, but it went a bit wrong as I hadn’t taken a subway map with me. There is a complete lack of maps in the stations and it is all well too complicated to try and remember. Lesson four on travelling on the New York subway is to take a map with you. Our first activity of the day ... read more

Day 4 we are still waking up early, so breakfast with playtime then we headed out. We headed to Times Square and I lined up to try and get matinee tickets for the new hit musical Spiderman turn off that dark on broadway. While I did this i ended up on a billboard in Times Square - a niffty vodka ad puts the crowd in the ad. So the queue went quickly so I'd gotten our tickets by 10.05am. The kids and Greg returned later from window shopping with very exciting news, They were standing outside the Disney store in Times Square when they approached Kasey and asked her to open the store for them, she got to use the HUGE Disney key and opened the store - very exciting. They also gave her a replica ... read more

Empire state of mind Lauantai päätettiin alottaa lauttareissulla Staten Islandille. Toki syötiin aamupalat ja tehtiin aamutoimet rauhassa, mutta siitä sitten suunnattiin downtowniin, josta kaupungin metroverkostoon kuuluva staten island ferry kyyditti meidät saarelle. Reissun tarkotuksena ei tosiaan ollu muuta kun kattella loittonevaa manhattania ja matkan varrella ollutta vapauden patsasta. Manhattan näytti kaukaa koostuvan kuin legopalikoista. Vapauden patsas taas oli aika oletetun kokonen. Itse saarella ei keksitty mitään tekemistä eikä meillä olis oikeen ollu vielä voimiakaan hirveeseen lenkkeilyyn, joten otettiin lautta saman tien takasin. Tää lautta oli rauhallisempi ja saatiin istuskella rauhassa ilman suurempaa hässäkkää yhdessä ja kattella patsasta, joka vei voiton kaupungin kattelusta. Oli se kuitenkin aikamoinen jötkäle ihmisten rakentamaks. Paljon työtunteja on nähty sen e... read more