Blogs from Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, North America - page 211

NY Day 1-1 Our first stop in the cool breeze morning of Manhattan was to go Columbia University. Yunru's canoeing teammate studies there and she has arranged to meet him when she comes NY. Columbia Uni is located at uptown Manhattan near Harlem (where most of the blacks are i was told aka HEI REN QU). But we didnt exactly go into Harlem, so i didnt get a feel of the 'black neighborhood' as yet. The uni was bigg... and it feels real good to walk ard the vast school campus, while enjoying the sun rays on yr face in the slightly cold morning. All ard us, students were moving out of their hostels...loading all their barangs into mini vans as their exams just ended the day before and it's the start of summer hols! Certain ... read more

This is the start of my first ever Travel Blog. Trying this out for my first time. Wanna document all the wonderful memories i've had in US for the past 2 mths! (13May - 11Jul 2005) The airline we took was EVA Airways. (Taiwan airline) When we first board the plane, we were all pretty disappointed that we had no personal in-flight entertainment! ARGH. But nvm..we still survived. Eat, sleep, strain my neck to check out the tv screen up there in the distance, listen to my MP3 player or just plain staring into space is what i did to pass time. At first, we only know that we had to transit over at Taipei. But over at Taipei, only then we found out the plane is gg to fly us to Seattle first (west coast), ... read more

Our final stop in the US before the real travelling begins!! Sara successfully negotiated the subway to meet her mum at JFK - a 4 hour round trip in total!! We highly recommend meeting your mum at some point on a round the world trip as the standard of accommodation dramatically improves!! The Hyatt was right beside Grand Central Station (a relief with our rucksacks!!) the room overlooked the Chrysler Building - perfect! Were real tourists and took a bus trip to get orientated around Manhatten and then spent the afternoon getting some culture, watcing Denzel Washington (live!!) in Julius Caeser in the Belasco Theatre - a real treat!! Had some difficulty finding somewhere to eat that night (something to do with being in the financial sector on a sunday night!!). Took another bus tour and ... read more

From: fran the man Sent: Friday, 29 April 2005. To: everyone Subject: On My Way To London Well New York’s been lovely I’ve almost done it all, Empire state, statue of Liberty, MOMA, Guggenheim, Macys, Bloomingdales, etc not enough quality time at central park though nor have I been to the Met - will try tomorrow though. Am staying in a cool hostel with some cool people and some strange people. I went up the empire state building -no King Kong as he's in Wellington at the moment, It was rather windy but the views over New York were stunning. The Guggenheim had this wicked exhibition on by this artist with a fascination for stripes; he’s put coloured stripes all over the interior and the roof along with a big wall of mirrors. If you threw ... read more

Been trying to get a lot of motorcycle riding in before I sell my bikes and head around the world. Changed my plans from starting in South America to heading straight to Japan and heading West from there. This gives me more time to enjoy Asia, South East Asia and India before I have to meet my family in South Africa in January.... read more