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Greetings! This is my attempt at blogging while I am away on a study abroad. For those who haven't heard the rough itenerary, it goes a little something like this: 20 days touring Ireland and Scotland in a coach bus, 14(ish) days hiking the Camino de ...

... my choices in regards to my primary and secondary studies. After visiting this place, we hooked up with Piotr who arrived to New York a day before us. We caught a ferry to the Liberty Island to see the Statute of Liberty. It was pretty cool and we ...

... there were many things to see.  Some of the statues that memorialize families and/or individuals are so beautiful.  The only royal tomb in York Minster is that of William, the son of Edward III.  William died as a baby, however the figure ...

... ; Within 2,5 hours we disembarked at York station and proceeded to our hotel which is next door. The Royal York has always served as the railway hotel and it is nothing short of magnificent. The station access is almost directly from the platform but this ...

... you can't have everything, can you? Piotr went back to the hotel after that while me and Aneta went to the Time Square. New York is totally awesome and magnificent. This city has a soul and its streets buzzing with life at every hour of the day makes ...

... , where they stayed until police suggested they move inside about 4am. At least they were happy drunks. Joined the congregation of York Minster for the 10am service. Even though it was tagged 'modern worship', it was a standard Anglican service out of the ...

... -who were up from London for the weekend. Had a few drinks and headed out to dinner...was a fantastic night. Explored York on Sunday morning, including The Shabbles dating back to the 1200's, beautiful city with loads of olde worlde shops. Sunday ...

... New York to LA along the south coast and then LA to New York along the North coast, I ended up back in my basic hotel in New York with just enough time to take in Central Park and do some last minute shopping before flying home to start my new job.  ...

... cake tomorrow) and it was jaw droppingly delicious and equally huge. I’m gonna like it here. Tomorrow my “Intrepid New York Experience” whatever that is. As I get into bed, exhausted but still pretty wired from the long day I switched ...

... most winters -  a bit of good Aussie hospitality experience coming into its own back in Old Blighty! We also visited York Minster  the largest Medieval Gothic cathedral north of the Alps and a treasure house of 800 years of stained glass ...

... drove through more beautiful countryside, including the veterinarian, James Herriott, of literary fame's area. The afternoon was spent in York, another walled city that the Romans had a major influence on. It was a place where several people left lots ...

... a student id you can pretty much get a discount on everything, and not just here in Sheffield. Our first stop was at York Minster, which was incredible. The building was just amazing with detail. Every inch of the building is covered with some type of ...

... back in Dublin, so we virtually left the JFK terminal in New York in less than 30 minutes. We took a YELLOW cab to our hotel (Royal Park Hotel) located on the 97th Street West on Manhattan. It took us about 45 minutes to get there. There is a flat rate ...

... begun in 1220 and completed in 1470. The 16th century rose window was beautiful. It commemorates the union of the royal houses of York and Lancaster. This place houses the largest collection of medieval stained glass in Britain. I toured the crypt which ...

... it – Rocket dropped us at the corner of King and York Sts. From there it was a three minute walk to the Royal York Hotel, where a Porter Airlines shuttle bus picked us up and deposited us by the ferry dock at Toronto Island Airport. Once in the ...

... comfortable.  I can't sleep.  But $2???  I had to.  So, I went and lined up at the Royal York Hotel to catch Greyhound's NEON service between NYC/Buffalo/Toronto and was lucky enough to at least not have anyone sitting beside me the ...

... York, day one. So in life, you have good days and you have bad days. Today wasn't the best day. Had a bad night sleep, that Royal National Hotel is the worst hotel ever! Our room, yes that would be the one I shared with a random stranger, was above the ...

... the Empire State Building. We celebrated Australia Day in a most un-Australian fashion, we went to the ice hockey. The New York Rangers played the Florida Panthers and lost. Fortunately we were sitting far enough away to avoid any wayward hockey pucks! A ...

... village so we wandered round for about an hour trying to find a bar by then I was done so Michelle and I stayed for just one before grabbing a cab back to the hotel while the others head toward the meat packing district for one more big night ...

... the blizzard conditions were truly settling in. As it was lunchtime we looked around for dim sum and came across "The Royal Seafood Restaurant" on Mott Street which was being patronized by entirely Asian people! It was heaving! Having suffered Taiwan we ...