We had a late start due to our recent tours. It was already past midday, when we finally got up and went to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
While walking towards the main entrance we heard an elder lady talking to her friend to Continue reading
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NYC Day 5 – Helicopter, MoMA, Times Square
Again another great sunny morning, a perfect match for a Helicopter flight! On the way to 6 E River Piers a promoter talked to us explaining his company’s offers and we got a flight spot superfast without long queues.
I was lucky and got the seat in the cockpit next to the pilot, what a thrill the view from above was!
This was my first helicopter flight ever, but surely it won’t be my last…
You don’t need to book online, there are several companies competing with each other at similar prices. They all Continue reading
NYC Day 4 – Grand Central, Guggenheim, American Museum of Natural History
The good weather had returned over night, so we started early after breakfast to go about our sightseeing plans and went for a walk in East Midtown.
On the list was a stop-by at the famous Grand Central Terminal, which surprisingly wasn’t too crowded at the time we arrived.
Then we went to Continue reading
Dizzy…
…that’s how I feel. Much to see and lots to walk: sightseeing is heavy business.
So is journalism, that’s why I can’t do both – I prefer to drink a cider and be lazy regarding the blog.
NYC Day 3 – Fort Greene
We woke up at an appropriate New York time and decided to have a walk in Brooklyn to explore our neighbourhood. It was still warm, but cloudy and the weather report predicted rain in the late afternoon. Very typical for New York is the green gardening, usually neighbours from the block create a small park on untiled ground with a fence to close it for the nights and reopen it to public during daytime.
The night before, I found a local shop on Continue reading