Monthly Archive: September, 2012

The really big Apple in New York is of course the Apple store. In fact there are 2 stores there so today we visited both. Our first stop was at the one in Grand Central Station. A visit to the station itself was interesting enough. It is a magnificent building, extravagantly decorated and huge. The Apple store occupies one of...

I woke just before 7:00 am but I could hear Majella snoring so I rolled over and closed my eyes. It was 8:00 am before I woke again. Majella was still snoring and seemed strangely wrapped in the bed clothes. It seems she found the bed too firm and had put a blanket under her for extra padding. I got...

After our exertions of yesterday we slept a bit later than usual but were moving well before 8:00 am. The hotel tarriff did not include breakfast so, rather than bother with a big breakfast in the restaurant, we had cereal we had been carrying with some milk (actually half and half) we had bought on the way home last night....

The two main things I wanted to do in New York today were to visit the 9/11 memorial and get to see a Broadway show. We did both, plus do a lot of walking around the lower end of Manhattan. The memorial was very moving and I’m glad we saw that this morning. We got cheap tickets to see Mary...

Our short trip into New York today took a lot longer than expected as we were delayed by flash flooding caused by a heavy downpour about 40km out of the city. I drove through a fair bit of water before finding an exit that we could take. When we finally did make it through, our drive through the city took...