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This is one City on the Go!!!
Hi Everyone,
I am getting behind here by a few weeks , so this will be short.
We would get up and start our day by about 8am, go down for breakfast. You would never guess, but this is what the choices would be; donuts (a few choices), pastries, muffins (all very sweet except 1), apples, crissonts with jam toppings, orange juice, …
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... sorry for him. But I guess that's the point of doing a speech. Anyway, on the second day we hopped on the subway and went along to open up all my old 6th and 7th form Art History memories at the MoMA - Museum of Modern Art. It was pretty cool seeing all these pieces - especially Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko, however there were sooo many people that it kinda ruined it. Starry Night by Van Gogh was there too and was certainly the star (get it?) attraction.
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Just what the Dr (House) ordered...
... a cab job. The subway here isn’t as straight forward as Boston’s, and my bag is the heaviest thing on the planet.
A quick cab ride later, I’m in the leafy sanctuary of the West Village. It’s quieter, it’s shady and apart from the high density of skinny-jeaned, big-haired hipsters… I like it. At the end of one of these leafy streets of brownstone houses, the Jane hotel is as close as you can get to the ...
Final Stop...NYC
... the first time and Rich wanted to go to the large M&M store to get his girlfriend a present.
On our final full day we headed on the tube down to the World Trade Centre Memorial which Dave booked us in for yesterday, unfortunately as we got off the tube at Fulton Street it was chucking it down with rain, we thought we would head close to the sight and seek shelter to see if it would pass. This didn't look likely so headed to a Starbucks for ...
On the road again...
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Monday morning we were up bright and early for our tour of the United Nations Headquarters. What an inspiring and well presented tour! I would highly recommend it to any visitors to NYC.
Be aware that you need to book around a month is advance to go on the tour, but you can enter the UN and have a little look around without the tour.
I was surprised ...