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York Slideshow
Travel Blogs from York, United States
If you are into coffee, roast at home and save
This is a top pick! ... downturn in sales for independents, in particular, and coffee chains in general have been reported here in the United States, although temporary fluctuations have been recorded, said Hetzel, and European and Asian coffee retailers are experiencing ...
So good they named it twice
This is a top pick! ... out at Carolines and Becca's watching films and having a laugh (at my expense......again) And this is my last entry from New York. Shit, I would have never thought I'd ever go to New York and now it's been and gone. Overall, I thought I was ...
One door closes...
This is a top pick! ... gone... it's only appropriate that we end this travelogue in the same country as it began. we have arrived safely in new york, and while we definitely have some mixed feelings about it, we are certainly happy to be reunited with family and friends. ...
More words of the year 2008
This is a top pick! ... were disaffected after Hillary Clinton failed to secure a sufficient number of delegates. It was later said to stand for People United Means Action.) * Election-Related Word: maverick (A person who is beholden to no one. Widely used by the Republican ...
Notorious hotel rooms
This is a top pick! ... December, 1980. The sex scandal, with allegations of rape and hush money, brought down Bakker's ministry empire. 6. Hotel Chelsea, New York Sex Pistol Sid Vicious awoke in Room 100 of New York's Hotel Chelsea in 1978 to find girlfriend Nancy Spungen ...
DAY 6 -- Diners, Pirate's Cove + Bloody Pond Road!
This is a top pick! Cloudy with catbirds. We start our next to last day at the Mt. Prospect Diner. They have excellent home fries, as we found out, some of the best we've ever had, and their coffee is pretty decent. I had scrambled eggs with cheese and an english ...
The bad side of travel writing
This is a top pick! ... who'd fled the chaos of Moscow and formed a successful orchestra in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. While I was in New York, the magazine asked me to drop by the newly opened Rose Museum inside Carnegie Hall, as well as a highly regarded Indian ...
I Love New York
This is a top pick! ... where the staff uniforms appeared to all be Hawaiian shirts. I had been saving what would be the highlight of my time in New York for tonight a sort of high point to end on (no pun intended) taking a risk that the perfect weather since I've ...
Manhattan Mermaid
This is a top pick! While in Washington I met Shelly from Vancouver and Lee from Korea who were now both staying at this same hostel in New York, not exactly a coincidence though after we were looking for the best place to stay together - the free breakfast won it over for ...
Time's Up
This is a top pick! ... a mass scramble for spare seats after take off. I was not sure what I feel other than a headache watching the lights of New York, America and this journey slip away beneath as we climbed into the clouds. The end of a year of traveling, I was tired ...
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 ...
Best free things to do
This is a top pick! ... In Europe, 27 InterCity Hotels throughout Germany and one in Vienna offer free local public transportation to guests while visitors to New York can't beat the spectacular view of the skyline during the 25-minute ride on the Staten Island Ferry. 5. Free ...
Uptown girls. We've been living in an uptown etc
This is a top pick! We go in search of yet another meeting set up by Robert with a producer who could give us some advice on publicizing Shit Theatre. With our maps we eventually track it down and find ourselves bang in the middle of times square looking at ...
One Year in NYC!
This is a top pick! It has now been exactly one whole year since Brea and I moved from Paris, France to NYC. Boy, time flies by so fast. When we arrived here we hit the ground running and haven't looked back since. We have had an amazing time so far and look forward to ...
Vote for wonders of the world
This is a top pick! Kinda funny, but you have to use real new modern technology to vote for the world's top natural wonders. Voting is now open, and closes at the end of the year. To view the nominated places and vote, go to ...
Word of the year 2008 hypermiling
This is a top pick! The New Oxford American Dictionary has selected the 2008 Word of the Year: hypermiling. Hypermiling is doing everything possible to get the most mileage from your car. If you have a fuel-efficient vehicle (like the Honda Fit, pictured) or a hybrid, ...
Niagara Falls & Wet Woby
This is a top pick! It rained pretty much all the way across Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York State on our way to Niagara Falls. We think it was the last remaining bands of rain from hurricane Gustav. We stayed at 4 Mile Creek Campground where the British fought with the ...
Wierdy Beardy
This is a top pick! In the morning we go see Lois at her apartment also in the East Village – it's a beautiful 'one room’ apartment with kitsch furniture and pictures everywhere and a classic NY fire escape decorated with flowers. (the massive stiletto chair ...
New York Nights
This is a top pick! ... a series of photos from New Orleans that I took a couple of years ago. Best wishes from New York. Take care, -Koury www.kouryangelo.com new work... ...
Manhattan - better late than never
This is a top pick! Hi to everyone from The Big Apple.... we were due to arrive last Saturday but ended up flying out Sunday so arrived a day later instead. We had said our goodbyes to my sister Michelle & family at the airport in Paris and were preparing for a chaotic ...
New York
This is a top pick! Happy Easter! I hope your holiday was as relaxing and enjoyable as mine. Brea and I went to Long Island on Saturday and Sunday to celebrate Easter with my Aunt Debbie and Uncle John. It was nice to out of the big city for a few days. I only get to do ...
Broadway and a Movie in with a view
This is a top pick! I checked CouchSurfing for events that were happening in the New York Area. Two things seemed very interesting and fun. There was a preview of some Broadway shows in Bryant Park, and there was an outdoor showing of 'Annie Hall' at Pier 1 in Brooklyn and a ...
Goodbye London, Hello New York
This is a top pick! We are dropped by a yellow cab on the corner of Avenue C and East 12th Street. We are travel weary, disorientated and it is 10.30pm. Robert Galinsky's building is easy to find so we ring buzzers 5A and 5B as instructed. No answer. Maybe he’s on ...
Where to people watch and know a place
This is a top pick! ... ’s a people-watcher’s paradise. Plus, these are often interesting spaces beyond the human component—think of New York’s Grand Central, or the art in the Moscow Metro. Laundromats Getting laundry done overseas, ironing out (har) the ...
London's Burning and Sleep No More
This is a top pick! London is on fire and the news in New York is not really that bothered. When it finally does turn up in the news its reported in a seriously distorted manner; e.g. replace the picture on the front page of the hoodie, with plasma screen under his arm, ...
New York - Re-acclimatizing To Civilisation
This is a top pick! ... , but once dressed, we enjoyed a lovely breakfast of bagels, croissants and cream cheese (you can get whipped Philadelphia in the States). Andrea and I then went for a walk down by the river and through Carl Shultz park (where some scenes from The 25th ...
Charlton Heston Can Kiss My Ass
This is a top pick! And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto Mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor ...
Off to New York
This is a top pick! ... was up to NY standards, but we were rushed as they were about to close. Our room at AKA is very nice, spacious for New York standards, and we have a little kitchenette with Microwave. As I am typing the last bit of this, Linda is organizing the room, and ...
getting ready to go...
This is a top pick! So it's getting close....leaving for Iceland on the 30th of August...got about 11 days to do everything...seems impossible. Got to get Corey off to another year of college, got to get my house ready for renters, still setting up this travel blog to ...