I think it would safe to say that today didn't get off to the best of starts. We have been chatting about seeing a Broadway show but the tickets via the concierge are incredibly expensive so we decided against them after the usual faffing and decided to queue at TKTS after the weekend. We headed off to Time Square to finding what time TKTS opened in order to get there at the start of the queue, and then thought we would have breakfast at the Hard Rock - it doesn'...

After a rest we wet off out again to catch the night bus from Time Square. A 90 minute bus trip took us down past the FlatIron building famed by the Spider-Man films but also because it was one of the first skyscrapers in the city. We then headed down through Noho, across canal street into Soho and on I to the financial district. This tour guide was much more interesting but the microphone wasn't working and he did seem to like speaking to those at the back of th...

A steady start to the morning and a gentle stroll up the Rockefeller building (promising ourselves that we wouldn't walk so far). We finally got our explorer passes having been sent to 3 different desks, and then joined another queue to get our top of the rock tickets. Unbelievably there was no queue for the first lift, but it only went up two storeys. We realised in hindsight (when we saw the afternoon queue) that we had got off very lightly and didn't have to w...

As I write this it would seem we are more settled to New York time, thanks to a sensible start time and a good breakfast. Therefore this is yesterday's activities. We hopped in a yellow cab, one of Sedges tick list things to do in New York, and it took us all the way down to Lower Manhattan to Ground Zero. I don't think we could have visited New York without going to the 9/11 memorial site. They say the British are people who queue, but our experience here is t...

The flight went off without any more hitches, although the inflight entertainment crashed so that all started late (hooray for ipad mini). About 1 1/2 hours before we landed I developed a very numb bum, perhaps I need a bit more natural padding, and much to my disappointment the in flight food was far from interesting or filling (I am one of those strange people who has always enjoyed inflight food until now). The plane landed at 4.15pm New York time and we fina...