Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 441

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

We live in NY and decided to take a trip across the Tappan Zee Bridge and do some tourist type stuff in our own "backyard" (we are about 15 minutes from Piermont). I decided to post these pictures on Travel Blog because I wanted all of the international readers to see that there is more to New York then New York City. There are beautiful places, not even an hour from NYC, that are not covered in concrete. So with that said here are our pictures from Piermont in Rockland County New York.... read more

My NY experience was like a dream sequence. I never recalled the names of the restaurants where I ate, the stores that I went, and even the streets that I walked. We arrived at NY at night time, and drove around Manhattan area to look for some place to eat. We went to Rockefeller Center (after getting lost in the streets for an hour) and ate at the resto there. (Geez, I don't know what place that was, the one beside the ice skating rink). Then we had dessert at Dean and Deluca. Then we drove going to Times Square where we parked and strolled. It was night time fight night, and there was a huge TV projector showing Dela Hoya's fight (he lost by the way). Then we strolled through the busy streets filled with ... read more