Park House Hotel Brooklyn

... of six museums. Some, like the Shanghai Museum of Urban Planning—with its football field-sized recreation of every building in the city--didn’t disappoint. The Museum of Hong Kong History took us back 400 million years, but the best parts were seeing how this city grapples with its own narrative of humiliation (the Opium War and the British Concession), oppression (the Japanese invasion), rise to global prominence, and reunification with the ...

... Europe - especially for 7 miles? After futile arguing with the driver for a good 20 minutes, we compromised on a still-crippling $70 and only succeeded in getting us so riled up that it really killed the evening.  What a day, I hope tomorrow is not the same! Next day in New Jersey, we get a quick, relatively cheap shuttle into NYC where we decide to explore a bit more than just Broadway and the metro!  So, we say our goodbyes to Marina and Diyanna at Madame ...

... all the rain we had on Friday. I guess Brooklyn is the Totness of NY. Today it has been super hot, in the 90s. I did go out to get lunch and instantly regretted it (yes you cannot win, its either too hot or pouring with rain). So now that I have some internet I can write this. Don't be surprise if it's a while again because its been tricky at the moment. I will try and add pictures but if you cant see them now then I will add them at another point. OK hope everyone is well and enjoyed the read!

... ly they created a new adjective to describe how amazingly difficult it was, but equally as rewarding. The first section was filled with crevices and small spaces of wet rocks you had to climb over, under, and jump on to from old pieced of wood and other slippery wet rocks. Pretty scary when you value your bones staying in tact. Once you're out of that maze, you find your self on a much higher elevation of hot rocks and a mountainside to climb up ...

Well we are taking off tomorrow, and I have yet to pack. I was barely able to get my clothes washed, lost my debit card so money is going to be a problem, and still haven't rented a placed to stay in Amsterdam. Aahhh just like every other trip I have ever been on. Figure it out when you get there! To see the hike that we are going to do in Ireland check out this link: http://www.kerryway.net/kerry_way_map/i ndex.shtml

... than it took to get there in the first place via the Metro. Over the next 2 days we spent our time on a hop on hop off bus tour of the city; we explored New York from Brooklyn to Harlem, and stopped at all the sights including a visit to the top of the Empire State Building. We did a quick calculation in our heads that the building makes $48,000 a day from tourists eager to see the view from the top. That equates to a revenue of over $14 million a year, who needs to rent ...

30.1.08 The plan was to go to Bronx zoo because today is the zoo's cheap day, where a voluntary donation of a minimum of $5 is charged. However, we woke up to a wet and windy day. We went to union square for a Whole Foods breakfast, then walked to the Paragon Sporting Goods where I bought a North Face jacket on sale for $174 plus tax. We walked around the markets set up at Union Square today and ...

... but also very sore feet after. Stopped for a huge slice of pizza, and a massive coffee. We then wandered in Central Park and it happened to be the John Lennon memorial bit, so there were people naging about with guitars and flowers to put on his memorial ground mosiac with the solitary word Imagine. It was a lovely spot to enter the part and its a very naturalistic area up on a hill with Yoko has donated 1 million dollars to make it. Very fitting I thought ...

... to realize that my dad is the greatest dad in the world; I honestly couldn't ask for a better one. When I was going through my Moffatts phase back when I was fourteen he got up at 5:30 in the morning to drive my cousin and I to some random high school in the middle of nowhere New Jersey to see them play and go to a meet and greet. He also did the same for a 2Gether meet and greet in Manhattan. He's done so much for my brother ...

... immigration even though I was changing airlines etc. I was very sceptical of this and rightfully so...turns out you have to collect your luggage at US airports no matter where your international flight is coming from or going to. I fluked it through immigration being fastracked by a nice American Airlines staff member as he feared I would miss my next flight if I had to wait in line (turns out there would have been ...