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The Highline
... the set is truncated (ah not really co-headlining) but the performance is very good. However most of the audience are Ian Hunter fans so the level of excitement is down from the previous two nights. The temporary seating is very squashy and uncomfortable. The bloke next to me, Doug, has flown in from London for the two NY shows. He should have gone Philly.
After the break I stay standing at the bar, I prefer to watch my music being able to ...
Lunch with Clive
The girls a morning of Manhattan shopping and queued for Evita tickets at the discount booth in Times Square only to find that there was very little discount today so $100 were not in our budget. I met up with Clive and his wife Michelle at a restaurant called Haru Sushi in Times Square. Good food particularly the tempura strawberry cheesecake. Clive paid but promised them nights at Hope House when they do ...
Foggy day
... of the towers !
Watched our first baseball game - Yankees vs redsox - Yankees won and I got my foam finger ! Very happy!
On the tube on way home some lady started telling me she didn't want my **** in her face, she was sat down and I was stood up - I wasn't even near her - don't sit down then!
Oh and rob thinks we are in Paris as he keeps referring to Empire State as the Eiffel ...
NYC Day One
... business district complete with plenty of skyscrapers. It was a sunny, but hazy day when we were up there so the photos don't do the view justice.
We stopped for lunch down in the food court and it was pretty good. We walked out through the plaza which had just about every flag except the Australian and German ones! Next stop was the Museum of Modern Art or MOMA. There they had everything from Salvador Dali to Vincent Van Gogh as well as many ...
Shopping and sailing to Staten Island
We split, boys went shopping in Times Square. We went to Central Park, the Reservoir, visited the Guggenheim Museum, then made it to our appointment near the Staten Island Ferry with Wendy Stone, whom we knew from Kenya. Back a bit too late at Times Square to meet the boys again. Cooked dinner for Sally and ...