Well after a good breakfast we grabbed a cab and headed off to La Guardia to catch our flight. It is a fact, the lines painted on roads for lanes are only suggestions (at least in New York). It would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The last night in New York, we headed out to a restaurant called Da Tomaso. This restaurant has to be one of the best kept secrets of Manhattan. It was affordable and it was fantastic. If you want a real […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Museum number 3 today. We have been to MoMA (museum of modern art), the natural history museum, and today the metropolitan museum of art (we tried to go to the gugenheim but the three hour line up to get in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thursday night at Madison Square Gardens. A definite memory to put in the books, The New Jersey Devils were in town to take on the New York Rangers. The game was played at a very high pace, lots of skating […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A few years back, my alarm clock was the TV set beside my bed. It had a timer in it and would turn on at the pre-set time. I had the channel set to CNN such that I would awake […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a most excellent dinner at Rosie O’Grady’s, the boys headed back to the hotel room and Joan and I headed over to the Rockefeller Plaza and a trip up to the “Top of the Rock” observation deck. It is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ok, so it wasn’t a cruise ship, there was no tsunami, the boat didn’t capsize and I didn’t get time to spend with Pamela Sue Martin. What really did happen though is we took a 2 hour harbour cruise (we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tuesday a day of worn out shoes. The day started with a walk (stroll?) down to the Empire State Building. It was amazing that as we walked down 5th avenue to the ESB we could not see the building until […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What can I say, but the city is amazing. I started the morning with breakfast at the Majestic Café, a simple pair of eggs, sunny side up, bacon (crispy of course), homestyle hash browns (with lots of flavour – [please […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third day in New York still leaves us wondering not only why we have not found Central Perk (Ross, Rachel, Joey and Chandler are no where to be found) but the locals keep giving us weird looks when we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…