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Jersey City Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Jersey City, United States
Back to America after 25 Months
This is a top pick! ... big time). So we dropped our stuff and headed to Taco Bell. Welcome to America baby! Then we went into the city and wandered around Central Park. It was cold. Ponds were covered in ice. It was windy. It was ...
Notorious hotel rooms
This is a top pick! Some hotels are renowned for their views or for their service. Others are famed for the outrageous, flamboyant or destructive behavior of their guests. Travel website travelandleisure has come up with a list of 8 of some of the world 's most notorious ...
worst travel experiences and places
This is a top pick! A fed-up American travel writer has launched a website where scarred tourists and jaded travel writers can tell the awful truth about their trips. Doug Lansky's www.titanicawards.com invites visitors to fill in a survey, send in pictures and videos, and ...
Where to people watch and know a place
This is a top pick! ... Gallery, maximise your time in a city’s social spaces. Let me explain how and why this is the best way of really seeing a city. For a backpacker with limited time, it’s hard to go to Sydney and not go and take an obligatory photo of the Sydney ...
Aeroflot Flight to Russia
This is a top pick! Four days before my flight to St. Petersburg I heard that an Aeroflot flight crashed in the Ural Mountains killing all 88 aboard. I imagined myself in the air listening to the flight attendant giving emergency landing instructions in ...
Meeting my first great CS host, Amit :)
So yeah, after getting slightly lost, I finally found the PATH train (1.75USD) to Amit's house from the WTC (world trade center site) and after about 15 minutes or so, was his stop... another 5 blocks or so walking and bam... I walked into his house, we ...
New York, New York
... cake made, ate cookies as big as my head, had a huge American style take out pizza, ate sushi like in Sex and the City and had yummy bagels and cream cheese from Saturday lunch. After eating so much good food I was amazed that New Yorker's aren't the ...
13th August - More sights of New York, New York
... The ride downtown had been interesting but the ride back to Times Square was, to say the least, boring as hell!! Apart from the United Nations building there was very little to see and Aids and I were well and truly over the experience by this stage. We ...
Back to reality.
We checked out from the hotel around 10AM and drove to the airport. We waited while DH returned the SUV. The line to check in was long but quick. Jet Blue only allows 50lbs weight for check in luggage and there were people opening their luggage and ...
Five days in the Big Apple - Day One
... it was laid back and quirky, and not too crowded either. I got a drink and chilled in Tompkin Square Park in Alphabet City and browsed the local thrift stores and gift shops, buying some presents for friends and a bargain necklace for one dollar. On ...
Safe at Home
Well, the day began somewhat auspiciously - as the taxi was leaving the hotel and almost through town, we slowed down as another car was making a turn...unfortunately, the car behind us apparently did not slow down and plowed into us going full ...
Background / The Trip Begins
... have never been to Europe - in fact, I've only been to Mexico one time and that's my world travel experience. I've been to a few states, so needless to say, I am far from a world traveler & this trip is a very big deal to me. Oh, and I've ...
Best New Years Eve EVER
Yesterday was amazing. We slept in a bit (seems to be a trend lol). It was finally snowing! I wish you could have seen the smiles on our faces walking through it. We couldn't contain ourselves. It made this trip perfect. We made it to Broadhurst ...
Five Days in the Big Apple - Day Five
... , as I'd fallen in love with the chilled vibe and the charm of the neighbourhood. I had breakfast in a cafe in Alphabet City, choosing Californian Omelette from the menu in anticipation of my new American adventure in November... LA here I come! After ...
Comment of the week...
I went to buy coffee at Starbucks (there is even one of those in the hotel), but really to see if I could get the wifi to work. I still have not got to grips with the coins, and my iced coffee was $3.16. I pulled out 3 X $1 notes and then asked the lady ...
lucy the elephant in margate city
Drove to Margate city,New Jersey.It near and south of Atlantic City. The attraction here is Lucy the Elepant,largest zoomorhic architecture in U.S.It is a national landmark and built in 1881.Joined a guided tour inside the elephant.There are ...
Atlantic City - Trump Taj Hall Arena
... with Trump...hanging in my of these horribly dingy hallways. The power of advertising...or, more accurately, the lies of advertising. Thankfulness for not having to work at a casino! Or in Atlantic City, in general, for that ...
Five Days in the Big Apple - Day Four
My BIG trip to the BIG Apple Day Four Tue Sept 2nd My last full day in NYC began with a trip to Lower Manhattan. Being a Tuesday morning in September, it was a very poignant time to visit Ground Zero. The atmosphere at the ...
Atlantic City - DAY 2!!!!
... we walk back to our hotel room at 3.00pm. He sleep for a bit and I went down to the beach to take picture of Atlantic City and the buildings. I walked down the boardwalk and had some Pizza at a little cafe, then found a Internet cafe and e-mail Jon Weston ...
Cycle tours and a boardwalk empire.
... to allow us to get to Port Authority Bus Terminal where we got a bus from Stand 1 out to Atlantic City famous for its boardwalk, casinos and apparently Jersey Shore. The journey took around 2 and a half hours and dropped us off at the Atlantic Casino. The ...
update
Hey! Realise its been awhile. So i went on my first set of off days last week. 7 of us went to atlantic city, lots of casions and a nice beach but not much else there. We stayed in a really nice hotel, chilled out on the beach shopped etc so was really ...
Photos: NY Phil + Serendipity
Have had a crazy busy week so will try to quickly recapture it, while also making work this afternoon on time. I MASTERED* the tapes' desk. *as in, got through the week Ridiculously I learned that the best part about this new job ...
The final medal list - South Africa South wins!!
Have tried to upload the table I made - but it converts to a list, grrr... Anyway, here are all the results. Per event, the order is Gold, Silver, Bronze (x2) Girls kata 1999-2000 USA USA South Africa South (Natasha) South ...
The city that never sleeps.
Today we were planning to travel from the South Ferry area to Times Square by a hop-on-and-off bus…. But wait a minute.. The weather was beautiful today (25 degrees), so.. get rid of the jeans and wear shorts! When we got at South Ferry we were a ...
New Jersey and the Science Center
... touch your card to a pad on a bunch of games, such as building your future home, where simulated residents of the future city of 2050 give you a critique of your building, showing the pros and cons, and also showing about energy usage. Building a ...
Reports are getting better!
"Her name is Nina and she's lovely," Sean told the anchor from the control room -- still brightens me up, recalling this ^_^ (yeah, silly) I had my first experience prompting for someone w/ a delay which means I speculate where she is ...
Bed Bugs
"How are you?" we ask a news assistant passing our desks. "Itchy," she replies with a rumpled face, scratching beneath her jacket's sleeves. Itchy? She thinks she has bed bugs and is considering purchasing a (mere) mattress cover in solution (not ...
What's in your room?
... from a broken heart? (oh too much honesty! -- said sarcastically) or having a stressful/competitive job, living in a stressful/competitive city ;) Anyway, that's my room, and all the things I carry with me. Now made better with ...