Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 436

Eventually, we were able to drag ourselves away from the buzz of NYC and hop on a train upstate, about 90 mins away to a place called Suffern. It's a sleepy little town, almost in New Jersey and picturesque, a nice contrast to the city. Mainly spent our time there hiking in the local county park (complete with bears, snakes, and deer ticks). However, didn't bargain on having to share a room with an iguana called tephys... ... read more

The New York trip - finally So, we left Detroit with an Amtrak bus to get us to Toledo. The train should arrive at about 10 p.m. In the end, we had slept the entire night on the couches at Toledo (at least they actually had couches and not only chairs or a stone floor), because the train arrived at about 6 a.m. instead. Of course, it got more delayed on the way, and arriving in NYC at 2.10 a.m., we were 10 hour late. So much for the Gary Numan concert we had planned to go to, just lucky we didn't buy any tickets to it in advance! In New York, we had decided for a cheap YMCA hostel in Brooklyn, which turned out to be so-so. When we arrived, it was totally hot, the ... read more

While Galileo Galilei may have gone before the church in Rome (1612) and professed that the earth was not the center of the universe (according to the Copernican theory) and for such heresy he was put under house arrest for the remainder of his life. Well Galileo Galilei obviously has never been to New York City (especially Times Square), if he had, he may have made an small exception before ratifying this theory. I was born to live in this city, its simply incredible. I know that it maybe a concrete jungle, but the cosmopolitan make up of the people makes it’s so incredibly interesting. I believe that London is the only other city that comes close to NYC. Well, I landed in NYC, a day after the arrests in England of the terrorists involved in ... read more

The Longest Day After Catherine managed to get us booked on a flight the day after we had been cancelled we waited with some trepidation for the morning as we would know reasonably accurately whether our flight had been cancelled. Luckily for us and not for others it was VS26 that was cancelled this time. So it was another trip to the airport. We left at 12:45 and arrived about 13:30 just as it was time for our flight to go into the terminal. We joined a queue - a BIG queue… by 15:30 we had checked in…. how could the flight possibly leave by 16:00? Answer it couldn’t - we got through the first body search and then queued for the second to get on the plane. The second search was on everyone including ... read more

Four elephants fuckingThe huge red statue near Ein Karem, Jerusalem, has always attracted the attention of Jerusalem's locals, who tried to explain the meaning of this strange monument. Hot air architects claimed that when looking at the statue from a certain angle, it exactly reflects the spectacular view of Jerusalem Mountains behind it; most of the natives, however, claimed that the anonymous artist merely tried to immitate four elephants fucking. Anyway, I was happy to see a mini-model of the statue near Brooklin Bridge, in Manhattan (see pic below). Finally I found out something, in which Jerusalem is bigger than NY. BTW, transferring pieces from Jerusalem - and not only model, but the real things - is a very good idea. Many of Jerusalem's residents would be very happy to transfer The Western Wall to Tel-Aviv, ... read more