Ellis Island New York City

Vandaag weer op tijd vertrokken, dat beviel gisteren goed. Ook nu zijn we weer de drukte voor als we aan boord gaan van de boot naar Liberty Island met het Vrjheidsbeeld. Ontbijten doen we pas op het eiland waar ze om 0930 uur al aan de worst en patat zitten. Wij houden het bij een sandwich met jus. Het weer is heel mooi, blauwe lucht en dat staat …

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Arrived in New York late on thursday night and took a taxi to our accomodation in Manhattan. The taxi driver was retarded and could not keep his foot still on the accelerator. At this stage Jono was not feeling good at all and by the time we reached the hostel he was full on into the flu.

Day 1
We decided that jono needed to rest as a …

The schedule:

Friday
- Travel to the Brooklyn Bridge
- Venture in Chinatown
- Drop into Ellis Island
- Wind it up with Grimaldi's Pizza

Today when I woke up my feet still hurt from the shopping all week! But I had to get over it because we were taking a walking tour on the Brooklyn Bridge. One of the oldest …

Wow what a city,
I have seen so much, Funniest things to happen to me, leaving Nigel standing on the platform of the subway with all the shopping and then actually being on the wrong train.... un happy Nigel and all i could do was laugh!
Nigel Ice skating in central park for the first time in his life how funny! It something I'll never …

So...we did it. And I don't think my poor feet will ever recover. We're exhausted, sleep deprived but have seen some incredible sights.

Day One - Friday

The alarm went off bright and early at 7am... which was most definitely a shock to the system! We were lucky that it was a beautiful day and set off downtown to Battery Park where …

I will keep this short as words can only do so much to describe the sight of Liberty, the famous toga wearing Statue that has welcomed immigrants to America for over 100years.

But I was thinking this will only be a few hours, but it took up a full 5hours after going through Ticket Pickup lines which I strongly recommend you do by …

Well we didn’t see any oversized orchard fruit but the place is certainly BIG! That point is made all the more apparent from atop the Empire State Building...which was our first stop after we disembarked the MEGABUS in New York City. We timed it an hour or so either side of sunset so we could take in the sunlit and night-time views. The night …

Plaats: 129th Street, New York City
Temperatuur: 29 C
Luchtvochtigheid: 75%

Het zit er alweer op, morgen begin van de middag pakken we de trein op Penn Station naar Washington DC, waar het nog warmer en benauwder is..

Afgelopen week veels te veel gedaan, we zijn oa. naar het Metropolitan Museum of Art geweest (veel te …

... and entertain you and all you can do is spin around and try hopelessly to capture it on your camera. Yellow cabs fly past, New York city cops patrol and tourists snap away with their cameras and you really feel like your in the middle of it all: in the ...

... her one must have to gain access to the crown and interior (these required long awaited bookings). Far more captivating was Ellis Island Immigration Museum. More than 12 million would be Americans made their way through the Grand Halls of Ellis and ...

... We caught a subway going south to the tip of Manhattan where we boarded a busy ferry bound for The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. We wandered around Mrs Liberty a few laps trying not to look up her skirt before boarding the ferry again to ...

... the ferry take off to Staten Island we decided to hop on and take a ride. The ferry takes you past the statue of liberty and Ellis island, but then for free instead of $20 per person. We figured that we could take a sunset ride back. Once you get to ...

... seller though I guess. Thankfully, the ferry costs a very small $13 which is quite a bargain and although we didn't stop at Ellis Island because it was just too cold, I would suggest when you take that into account the $13 is extremely cheap. It's not ...

... we all caught the ferry to Statton Island, which passes close to the Statue of Liberty without paying to go on the Ellis island ferry. Good for photo's. Had lunch in some cafe, observing a Jekyll and Hide restaurant opposite us. Looked really good, ...

... the Statue, although it's a lot smaller than I had expected, and you can barely see it from Manhattan. Next stop was Ellis Island where immigrants were screened in the late 1900s and early 20th century. Couldn't be arsed looking around as it was a bit ...

... posing photos and looking for around for an ice-cream to fill in for the torch. Island hopping we jumped over to Ellis Island pleasantly surprised at the wealth of information here all about the millions of immigrants that had passed through it's ...

... Hood). Yesterday we got the free ferry to Staten Island (1hr round trip) which went past the statue of liberty. We plan on going to Ellis Island Tomoz if the rain holds off. Time sq is brill. Lots of lights and views to soak up. Last night we saw ...

... , which to be honest was a relief as I was terrified last time, but we wandered around the base and the island taking in the views of New York City all around us. After visiting the Statue of Liberty we went further on the ferry to Ellis Island, Ellis ...