Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 442

The final 4 days of our 6 month trip!!!! ... read more

As I lie here at 2am in my welcoming room I am aware that from here on out everything changes. You see tomorrow morning at 9am I get in the family car and speed off to the airport. There I will catch a plane to Sapporo, Japan to begin my new life as an expatriate in a land I cannot comprehend at the moment. I haven't set off like this in six years!! I can't believe that everything that I have been working for the past five years has come to fruition. Ever since I got back from 2001 I have been looking to move to somewhere more exotic, somewhere different. I could have left immediately and become a teacher of the English language, but I wanted something more substantial. Something that would give me better ... read more

The Big Apple We arrived in to New York close to midnight, the town was alive and steamy- the heat escaping from the subway & rising through the grills in the middle of the street. We’d been travelling all day to get here so were keen to check in to our hotel in the trendy Tribeca(triangle beneath canal street) district. Maybe MGM had spoilt us but we were not impressed to turn the door key to find the tiniest room, tiniest bed & tiniest bathroom ever - we could not even open our luggage at the same time due to the tiny floor space. It was straight back down to reception to ask for a bigger room upon which we were denied - ‘Sorry, no other rooms available’ - had our luck run out? The Staten ... read more

Wow!! We just returned from the Broadway production of “The Drowsy Chaperone”! It was a hugely enjoyable comedy/musical so cleverly scripted and produced. I guess we are looking at the some of the best performers in America so they might have been expected to do such a fine job. Our internet tickets were at one edge of the main floor. After talking to the usher letting him know we were from Canada and wished we had had a better choice of seats for early booking, he bent to whisper if some better seats were not taken right at opening, we could move over. He did return just a minute ahead and whispered we could take seats on an empty row two or three behind us and way over towards center. We made the move and wouldn’t ... read more

Here we are, located now in the Vanderbilt New York YMCA, only 2 blocks from the United Nations Building and only about 9 short blocks from Grand Central Station. We were pleasantly surprised that, after a few comments and discreet questions while registering, there was a room WITH a private toilet and shower that we could take for a little higher price; $110 up from $88 per night. Instead of bunk beds it also has a queen-size bed. However, when we opened the door we realized the room had not been made up. So we are awaiting the housekeeping services. In the heat of the day, after transferring here and being made to wait until 3 to register, thus wandering to Grand Central Station and such, in and out of A/C buildings and shade and sun, ... read more