On our last day we weren't due to head to the airport until mid afternoon as we had a evening flight. We had breakfast and then checked out, leaving our luggage with the concierge for the day. We had saved some activities around Central Park for our last day so headed off in that direction. Firstly we had planned a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Met for short. In particular to see an exhibition called Punk:Chaos to Couture which tracked the i...

We had promised ourselves a day outside New York City as so many people had told us that upstate New York was beautiful and the scenery was spectacular. Not really knowing where we would be best to go, and not having long if we were to guarantee going there and back again in one day we settled on Poughkeepsie. A small amount of googling had shown us that it was home to the longest footbridge accross the Husdon, which we thought might be an interesting thing to e...

We woke up to the most glorious weather in New York, the sun was shining the sky was blue and the forecast suggested it was set for the day so we decided to switch our plans around and have a day down by the river. First things first, one of the few things on my list to do was to find the best Jewish Deil in town and get a 'proper' pastrami and rye sandwich for lunch. The Rough Guide to New York suggested that there was a good deli just of 3rd avenue so we walk...

Having made our plan the day before we set out to have big American Style breakfast in the Diner opposite Grand Central station. Another thing ticked off the list even if I didn't have pancakes and maple syrup. We headed on over to Radio City and got ourselves booked on a backstage tour, which included having our photograph taken with a Rockette. Sadly we didn't get to go into the auditorium because there was a school graduatlon going on, but at least we got t...

On sunday morning we got up to a miserable rainy day in New York, so we hopped in a cab and went to Trinity Church on Wall Street. Since it was Pentecost we encountered a service where they were baptising 20 or so children, the bishop was there to confirm a few adults and accept a couple of people into membership. All this with a eucharist and a 25 minute sermon from the bishop of New York made for a long service, but at least it was out of the rain. We had a ...